Polling Under Way for Andhra Pradesh Parishad Elections
In Short
A total of 21,012 candidates are contesting the polls for the 582 ZPTC seats and 7,767 MPTC seats
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Polling Under Way for Andhra Pradesh Parishad Elections
Polling for the elections to Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTC) and Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies (MPTC) in Andhra Pradesh started at 7 am on Thursday and will go on till 5 pm. Long queues were witnessed as many voters cast their votes.
A total of 21,012 candidates are contesting the polls for the 582 ZPTC seats and 7,767 MPTC seats. A total of around 2.61 crore eligible voters are expected to exercise their voting right at the 31,460 polling stations. After the notification and last date of withdrawal, 2,128 seats in the MPTC and ZPTC elections were contested without opposition. Of which 18,843 candidates are contesting for the MPTC seats and 2,169 candidates are contesting for ZPTC seats.
The state has deployed a total of 201,116 officials and staff in the form of returning officers, Presiding officers, Assistant Presiding officers, Zonal officers and micro observers.
However, due to heavy rains and bad weather conditions in five mandals of Eluru and East Godavari districts and two polling stations in one mandal, the State Election Commission has announced postponement of polling. Polling will be held on Friday for the aforementioned areas and counting will be done on Saturday.
Polling has been completely cancelled at Velairpadu, Buttayagudem, Jeelugumilli, Polavaram mandals in Eluru district and Gopalapuram mandal in East Godavari district.
