Counting of votes in Assam panchayat polls to continue for the second day Thursday.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken a massive lead over its opponents in the Assam panchayat polls as counting of votes entered second day on Thursday.
BJP won the highest number of seats in the first day of counting on Wednesday, with 45% of declared results going in its favour, followed by the Congress, the state election commission said.
The counting began at 8 am on Wednesday and Thursday is the tentative day for the final results. The voting was carried out through paper ballots.
Over 78,000 candidates, including from major parties - BJP, Congress, Bodoland Peoples Front (BPF), Asom Gana Parishad and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) - contested the elections for over 26,000 seats in Assam panchayat bodies.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Assam State Election Commissioner HN Bora said the counting to all the 26,808 posts would continue the whole night and was likely to take entire Thursday.
Wednesday results:
Announcing the outcome of Wednesday's counting, Bora said results for 1,218 posts were out. Out of this, 1,089 posts are gaon panchayat members (GPM), 71 gaon panchayat presidents (GPP) and 58 anchalik panchayat members (APM). No final result of any zila parishad member (ZPM) was available on Wednesday.
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As more and more trends are turning into result, it looks like BJP is set to win around 60% of the total seats. Congress is winning around 30% of the seats, not too bad considering it faced severe fortune reversal couple of years back. AGP is set to be the biggest loser reduced to a fraction of their past power. AIUDF has done well in their bastions.
14:13 IST Thursday, 13 December 2018
Gaon Panchayat Member
BJP-2403
Congress- 1346
AGP-430
AIUDF-125
Others-293
Gaon Panchayat President
Trends/Wins available for 1340 out of 2199 seats
BJP- 672
Cong-411
AGP-99
AIUDF- 45
Others-113
Anchalik Panchayat member
Trends/Wins for 1076/2199
BJP 573
Cong 370
AGP 68
AIUDF51
Others 80
Zilla Parishad member
Trends/Wins of 234/420
BJP 150
Cong 73
AGP 13
AIUDF19
Others 6
12:09 IST Thursday, 13 December 2018
Gaon Panchayat Member
BJP-2280
Congress- 1231
AGP-429
AIUDF-71
Others-256
Gaon Panchayat President
Trends/ Wins available for 1241 out of 2199 seats
BJP- 618
Cong-394
AGP-86
AIUDF- 43
Others-100
Anchalik Panchayat member
Trends/Wins for 1076/2199
BJP 525
Cong 374
AGP 62
AIUDF49
Others 66
Zilla Parishad member
Trends/Wins of 234/420
BJP 139
Cong 59
AGP 13
AIUDF19
Others 4
Results after counting of day 1:
BJP: 481 GPM posts, 33 GPP posts, 30 APM posts
Congress: 294 GPM posts, 20 GPP posts, 15 APM posts
AIUDF: 15 GPM posts, two GPP posts, 8 APM posts
CPI(M): Five GPM posts
CPI: Two GPM posts
Independents: 175 GPM posts, six GPP posts, three APM posts
The BJP won 33 GPP posts, Congress 20, AGP 10, AIUDF two posts and Independents six.
"The counting is going on peacefully. No anomalies have been reported from any counting hall in any part of the state," Bora said.
The elections were held on December 5 and 9 to elect 21,990 GPM, 2,199 GPP, 2,199 APM and 420 ZPM across the state, recording an overall voting of 82%.
While there were 78,571 contestants, 734 were elected uncontested.
(With PTI inputs)
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