Counting of Votes for GHMC Elections Underway

Source: TT

Counting of votes polled in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Election on 1 December for electing corporators to 150 wards, begins on Friday, amid tight security. The 150 wards of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation consist of four districts- Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Sagareddy.

Counting of Postal Ballots was taken up and later polling-station wise regular ballot papers will be counted. Counting is taken up in 30 well-equipped centres spread across 166 halls and the trends are expected to be known around noon. For each ward, counting hall has been provided and in each counting hall 14 tables are arranged. The total number of personnel engaged in counting is 8,152, official sources said. 

Polling was conducted across 149 wards on Tuesday and re-polling was held in all the 69 polling booths of ward-26 in old Malakpet on Thursday. The re-polling was ordered on December 1 by the State Election Commission (SEC) after the party symbol of CPI candidate was erroneously printed on the ballot paper as that of CPI-M.