The Congress has emerged victorious in 38 panchayat samiti seats in Patiala, as the last vote count, with 9 seats bagged unopposed. The Shiromani Akali Dal has secured victory on only 2 seats.
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Patiala Zila Parishad & Block Samiti Elections 2018 Results: Congress Wins 38 Block Panchayat Seats in Patiala, 9 Unopposed
The Patiala Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti Elections 2018 Results will be declared on Saturday, September 22. Stay with us for Live updates on counting of votes taking place from 8 am.
22 Sep, 13:46 (IST)
Akali Dal candidate wins Issarheri zone seat in Patiala block samiti by 35 votes. The Congress is demanding recounting here.
22 Sep, 13:39 (IST)
Congress has won 2 Zilla Parishad zones in Patiala so far. Counting is underway.
22 Sep, 13:16 (IST)
Congress workers have begun celebrations with Dhol and Bhangra in Patiala, which is the stronghold of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Congress is leading in Zilla Parishad and Block Samiti seats in Patiala district.
22 Sep, 12:10 (IST)
Out of 16 Zilla Parishad seats in Patiala, the Congress has won 14. The AAP has failed to open its account in the district.
22 Sep, 11:50 (IST)
Patiala Panchayat Samiti Results so far:
Masana Block Samiti Zone 3 - Congress Candidate Gurdip Singh Wins
Masana Block Samiti Zone 4 - Congress Candidate Simranjit Kaur Wins
Nabha Block Samiti Zone 3 - Congress Candidate Karamjit Kaur Wins
Patran Block Samiti Zone 4 - Akali Dal Candidate Lakshmi Bai Wins
Patran Panchayat Samiti Zone 5 - Congress Candidate Bhajan Ram Wins
22 Sep, 11:35 (IST)
Nabha Block Samiti Results - Congress candidate Harjaspal Singh wins from Zone 1. Akali Dal candidate Karamchand wins from Zone 2.
22 Sep, 11:32 (IST)
Congress has won from both Zone 1 and Zone 2 in Block Samiti polls. Counting is underway.
22 Sep, 11:07 (IST)
In Patiala, Congress has won 6 block samiti seats while Akali Dal has won 2 so far. Counting is underway.
22 Sep, 10:37 (IST)
Congress candidate wins from Madu zone in Patiala.
22 Sep, 08:19 (IST)
In Patiala, counting of votes is underway at 8 centres amid tight security.
22 Sep, 08:00 (IST)
Counting of votes has begun for the Patiala Zila Parishad & Panchayat Samiti Elections 2018.
Patiala, September 22: The Patiala Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti Elections 2018 Results will be declared on Saturday, September 22. The counting of votes for the Patiala rural body elections is set to begin at 8 am and the final results are expected to be out by this evening. Voting for the Patiala rural polls was held on September 19. Stay with us for Live updates on counting of votes for rural body polls in the Patiala district.
Voting for the Patiala ZP and Panchayat polls took place on Wednesday September 19 and a total voter turnout of 58.98 percent was recorded. While the voting was largely peaceful, there were reports of some stray incidents like allegations of booth capturing and violence in some parts. Following this, repolling was held on booth number 131 of Bakshiwala village in the district.
The Patiala district in Punjab had a total of 8.7 lakh eligible voters in total. Out of the nine zones in Patiala, Rajpura recorded the highest voter turnout of 70.8 percent. Sanaur recorded the lowest turnout with just 51 percent votes. Polling was held on ballot paper across 1,284 polling stations in the district.
Meanwhile, counting is underway for Punjab Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti Elections 2018 across 21 other districts including Amritsar and Ludhiana too. While voting was held on Wednesday, repolling was held at 28 booths across eight districts after stray incidents were reported on September 19.
The polling took place on 354 Zila Parishad seats and 2,900 panchayat seats. A total of 17,268 polling booths were set up, 35 observers appointed and around 50,000 police personnel deployed for the polls in Punjab. There are a total of 1,27,87,395 registered voters in Punjab, comprising 60,99,053 women and 97 third-gender voters.
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