Odisha Municipal Elections: Voting, Schedule, Results And All You Need To Know
What Are Municipal Elections?
It is a direct election of people's representatives to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), Notified Area Councils, Municipalities and Municipal Corporations which together form the third tier of governance in India.
Where will elections be held?
The ULB elections in Odisha will be held this year at 4437 booths spanned over 106 ULBs including 47 Municipalities and 59 NACs apart from three Municipal Corporations namely Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Berhampur.
Dates Of Polling
All eligible voters can exercise their adult franchise on EVMs to elect their choice of candidates. As per the Election Commission, over 40 lakh voters are expected to turn out to exercise their democratic rights. Votes will be polled on March 24.
Declaration Of Results
Counting of votes in the ULB polls shall be conducted on March 26 and the Results will probably be declared on the same day.
Some Trivia
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In the municipal elections, the BJD, BJP and Congress have secured 73, 16 and seven municipality chairman posts respectively.
Though the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) registered a thumping victory in the recently concluded Urban Local Body (ULB) polls, political analysts view that the mood of the urban voters, rebel BJD candidates and confusion in ticket distribution might have hindered BJD in recording a clean sweep.
Expressing gratitude, the parliamentarian thanked the voters for the Bhubaneswar for showing trust in BJP and supporting the party candidates in the ULB polls held on March 24.
The miscreants reportedly pelted stones at the house of former corporator and independent candidate from ward no.12 Biren Patnaik and his wife Sasmita who was contesting for the corporator post from ward no 14. The couple had reportedly lost from their respective wards yesterday.
The BJD has won chairperson seats in 73 municipalities/NACs and mayor seats in all three municipal corporations -- Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur
The ruling party's mayor candidates in three municipal corporations of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur were also leading over their nearest rivals.
Nearly 65 percent of the total 40.55 lakh voters had exercised their franchise in the elections to urban local bodies held on March 24.
After a gap of around 9 years, 106 NACs/Municipalities and three Municipal Corporations in Odisha will see their elected representatives and heads on Saturday. The
As low as 50 per cent voters turned out in Bhubaneswar while the figure was 48 percent in Berhampur. The trend has left political analyst worried, and political parties putting an accusing finger at one another.
The police resorted to lathi charge on corporator candidates and their supporters protesting the alleged EVM tampering by a BJD supporter at the strong room created at the Buxi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar (BJB) Autonomous College in Bhubaneswar on Friday. The counting of votes for the ULB polls will be held tomorrow.
Congress has predicted that they will grab around 17 seats
SEC Secretary, Rabindranath Sahu said as per the schedule the counting of votes will start at 8 am tomorrow (March 26) and continue till all votes are counted.
The repolling for the chairman post was necessitated in the booth after the voting process was hampered yesterday due to glitches in the Electronic Voting Machine
Addressing media following the culmination of voting at 5 pm, State Election Commissioner Aditya Prasad Padhi said, “These are approximate numbers. The exact voting percentage will be shared tomorrow.”
The BJD workers and supporters allegedly vandalised BJP leader Manoranjan Dyansamantaray’s vehicle and several other bikes, sources in formed.
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