Goa Zilla Panchayat elections on December 20: 8.68 lakh voters to decide 50 seats as MCC comes into force

Goa volition elite its caller Zilla Panchayats (ZP) connected December 20, 2025, with the State Election Commission of India (ECI) announcing the docket for polls to 50 constituencies crossed North and South Goa. According to the ECI, a full of 8.68 lakh voters are eligible to formed their ballots, arsenic the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) comes into contiguous effect crossed each ZP jurisdictions.

The Commission has besides released updated electoral rolls, finalised the preservation of seats, and deployed observers and enforcement teams to guarantee creaseless and transparent polling.

According to the ECI, the electoral rotation adopted from the Goa Legislative Assembly rolls is arsenic of January 1, 2025. There are 9 reserved seats for women, 7 for OBCs, and 1 for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) successful North Goa. In South Goa, 10 seats are reserved for women, six for OBCs, and 5 for STs. There are a full of 1,284 polling booths, with 658 successful North Goa and 626 successful South Goa.

Voting volition beryllium conducted by ballot, arsenic per the Election Commission. A full of 8,68,637 voters volition workout their close connected December 20, comprising 420431 antheral voters and 448201 females. According to the canvass body, “The candidates tin record their nominations betwixt December 1-9. The scrutiny of nominations volition beryllium held connected December 10.”

The voting volition beryllium held connected December 20, with the counting of votes scheduled for December 22. Notably, the ZP elections volition beryllium a important conflict betwixt the parties earlier the Goa Assembly elections successful 2027. In the past Goa Assembly polls, held successful 2022, the Bharatiya Janata Party won 20 seats.

The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party won 2 seats. The Congress won 11 seats, and the Aam Aadmi Party won two. Independent candidates won 3 seats, with 2 secured by others. Meanwhile, the Goa Congress held a "comprehensive training-cum-awareness league connected the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)" successful Panjim connected Friday (November 28, 2025).

The enactment posted connected X (formerly Twitter), "GPCC led by @INCGoa President @amitspatkar conducted a broad training-cum-awareness league connected the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful Panjim, bringing unneurotic BLA-1, BLA-2 representatives and Block Presidents from each constituency. Senior VP @MKShaikGoa, South Goa LS @ViriatoFern, @TuhinaaChndrskr, and Nishant Mandal led the training, empowering our teams with the cognition needed to safeguard the voters' list.”

"The Congress Party stands unwavering successful its ngo to support each Goan's cardinal close to ballot and we volition defy each azygous effort of #VoteChori successful Goa, nary substance who tries it," the enactment emphasised.