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A elector turnout of 8 per cent was witnessed till 10 a.m. successful the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections successful Punjab connected Sunday (December 14, 2025), officials said.
The polling began astatine 8 a.m. amid choky information arrangements and is slated to proceed till 4 p.m. The counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected December 17.
Elections are being held to elite members of 347 zones of 22 zila parishads and 2,838 zones of 153 panchayat samitis. Over 9,000 candidates are successful the fray.
A full of 1.36 crore voters are eligible to formed their ballot.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann appealed to voters done X to travel retired successful ample numbers to formed their ballot.
Several leaders and ministers, including Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, MLAs Kuleep Singh Dhaliwal, Sandeep Jakhar and erstwhile curate Surjit Singh Rakhra, formed their votes early.
Many voters, peculiarly the aged and women, reached respective polling stations successful the greeting to workout their franchise.
Officials said that 18,224 polling stations person been acceptable up, covering each agrarian areas of the districts. There are 860 hyper-sensitive and 3,405 delicate polling locations, they said.
Around 44,000 constabulary unit person been deployed nether the supervision of gazetted fertile officers to guarantee free, just and peaceful elections successful the state.
The State Election Commission, Punjab, has appointed predetermination observers and constabulary observers and asserted that it is afloat committed to conducting these wide elections reasonably and transparently.
Candidates of each large governmental parties — the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP — are contesting the zila parishad and panchayat samiti polls connected enactment symbols.
During canvass campaigning, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party sought votes based connected the works undertaken by the Bhagwant Mann government.
In the run-up to the polls, the absorption parties targeted the Mann government, accusing it of utilizing the authorities machinery to forestall their candidates from filing information papers and getting those rejected.
