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Fate of municipal poll candidates to be decided today
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Arrangements being made for counting of votes at PVKN Degree College in Chittoor
Tirupati: The fate of candidates in the municipal elections will be decided on Tuesday, with counting scheduled to begin at 8 am. The polling for electing mayor / chairpersons and corporators / councillors in all municipalities and corporations was held on Sunday after which ballot boxes were shifted to respective counting centres.
District administrations in Tirupati, Chittoor and Annamayya districts have made elaborate arrangements at all counting centres, and the first results are expected around noon.
In Chittoor city, elections were held for Mayor and corporator posts in nine divisions. In the remaining 51 divisions, corporators were elected unanimously, and voters cast their votes only for Mayor candidate. As a result, counting process in Chittoor is expected to be completed quickly.
In Nagari, Municipal Chairperson was elected unanimously, and votes will be counted only for councillor posts. Counting will also be held in Palamaner and Kuppam municipalities.
In Tirupati Municipal Corporation, votes will be counted for Mayor post and corporators in all 66 divisions. Counting will also take place in Naidupeta, Puttur, Venkatagiri and Sullurpeta municipalities. In Annamayya district, counting will be held for chairperson and councillor posts in Madanapalle, while in Punganur counting has to be held in only four wards as the remaining 32 wards councillors and municipal chairperson belonging to NDA were elected unanimously. As per the State Election Commission schedule, counting must begin by 8 am. Postal ballots will be counted first, followed by the counting of regular votes, which will begin even as the postal ballot counting continues.
Three counting personnel will be deployed at each table, while 10 percent of the staff will be kept in reserve. Ballot papers for Mayor and corporator candidates will be separated and bundled in groups of 25 votes. Each table will be allotted 1,000 votes for counting.
Officials expect the bundling process to be completed within three hours. Each round of counting is likely to take about an hour, depending on the number of tables and staff deployed at the counting centres. Based on these arrangements, the first results are expected around 12 noon.
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