GHMC election results declare today

GHMC Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy stated that elaborate arrangements have been made for the counting of votes in the GHMC limits. He said that the GHMC has identified 99 counting halls in 24 counting centres as sensitive where security was beefed. The GHMC will deploy 5,626 staff and arrange 1674 tables for counting purpose, he added. 

The counting process will begin at 3 pm  for 149 divisions and for Puranapul division it would be delayed by at least two hours.  

The GHMC Commissioner said that a counting supervisor, counting assistant and additional counting supervisor will foresee the



counting at each table. The entire counting process will be held under supervision of election observers and would be videographed, he said. The postal ballot votes would be counted in the first half an hour of the polling, for which a separate table with a Returning Officer has been arranged, he added.

He said that the results for 26 wards will be declared two hours after the beginning of the counting process. The results for all 150 divisions were expected to be completed within 4 hours from the time counting starts, he added.  Janardhan Reddy said the counting of votes will be done in 827 rounds.