Panchayt polls vote count to commence from sunday

Counting of votes for the Panchyats polls will commence in all districts barring Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) from Sunday morning. Polls were not helfd in Noida as per an order of the Allahabad High Court. The State Election Commission will furnish election results of the village panchyats to the winners through SMS.

This service will be available to those who had furnished their mobile number in their nomination papers.

The counting of votes is going to be a gargantuan task for the SEC as for the 58,909 posts of village prdhan as many as 4.78 lakh candidates were in the fray and for member, village panchyats 7.86 lakh candidates were trying their luck. Of the 11 crore voters, 71 percent turned out to exerciset heir franchise.

State Election Commissioner, SK Agarwal said in lucknow that counting would begin from 7 am and 819 counting centers have been set in 74 districts of UP. For the smooth conduct of the counting, one Returning Officer and one Assistant Returning Officer have been deputed at each centre. Then counting of votes will be done in two shifts. In the first shift 39,553 teams would be deployed, while for the second the number of teams will be 29,625. Each counting team will comprise five persons.

The ROs will be the competent authority to declare election results. The Commission will monitor the counting process online. The results will also be available on the SEC website. For maintaining law and order, elaborate security arrangements have been made at each counting centre. The SEC has already banned the taking out of victory processions by the winning candidates.