BJP Surges Ahead In Assam Panchayat Polls, Congress Trails As Counting Continues

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Last Updated:May 12, 2025, 00:15 IST

Elections were held successful 2 phases connected May 2 and 7. BJP has won six Anchalik Panchayat seats successful Majuli.

Voters amusement their fingers marked with indelible ink aft casting votes during the 2nd signifier of Panchayat elections, successful Guwahati, Assam. (IMAGE: PTI)

The BJP is starring successful the Assam panchayat polls’ counting, which is underway crossed the authorities since Sunday greeting amid choky security, officials said.

Panchayat elections took spot successful 2 phases connected May 2 and May 7 successful 27 districts for the archetypal clip aft the delimitation of constituencies. The counting of votes for some phases is being held simultaneously since 8 am.

According to Assam State Election Commission (ASEC) data, the BJP has won six members of Anchalik Panchayat constituencies successful Majuli district.

“We person not got immoderate different trends oregon results yet from the districts. Counting of panchayat votes is simply a precise analyzable occupation with 3 ballot papers for each panchayat. It volition proceed till time night," ASEC Commissioner Alok Kumar told PTI.

The full seats see 21,920 Gram Panchayat (GP) members with 10,883 seats reserved for women. Voting besides happened for 2,192 Anchalik Panchayat (AP) members with 1,124 reserved for women and 397 Zilla Parishad (ZP) members with 199 seats reserved for women.

Sources said the BJP is starring successful 355 AP seats and its state AGP successful 42 seats, portion the Congress is up successful 21 AP constituencies.

In the lawsuit of ZP, the saffron enactment is marching up successful 35 and AGP successful two. Congress is not starring successful immoderate ZP spot yet.

The GP members were not allowed to contention connected enactment tickets and they were each independents.

As galore arsenic 2,912 candidates person won uncontested – 34 ZP members, 311 AP members and 2,567 GP ward members.

“The counting of ballot papers began successful each the 39 centres crossed the state. The counting agents of candidates reached aboriginal successful the greeting for the exercise," a elder authoritative said.

In presumption of stray unit and disruptions during voting, the medication has arranged capable information measures successful each the counting centres to debar immoderate specified situations, helium said.

“There are thousands of seats successful the election. We volition effort to implicit the counting arsenic soon arsenic possible. However, we judge that it is apt to agelong till tomorrow," the authoritative said.

A full electorate of 1,80,36,682, comprising 90,71,264 men, 89,65,010 women and 408 others, were eligible to workout their franchise successful 25,007 polling stations.

According to authoritative data, 74.71 per cent of the eligible voters exercised their franchise during the panchayat polls.

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Guwahati [Gauhati], India, India

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