Over 61 per cent voter turnout was registered in the first phase of the polling to elect panchayat samiti and zila parishad members in six districts of Rajasthan on Thursday, according to a state election commission official. The polling started at 7.30 am at around 3,500 polling booths in Bharatpur, Dausa, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sawai Madhopur and Sirohi districts.
"A total of 61.41 per cent turnout was registered till 5.30 am," according to an official of the state election commission. The final figures are awaited. The elections are being held in three phases starting from Thursday to elect a total of 200 members of six zila parishads and 1,564 members of 78 panchayat samitis. The second and third phase of polling will be held on August 29 and September 1, and the counting will take place on September 4.
One zila parishad member and 26 panchayat samiti members have already been elected unopposed. In the first phase, 26.55 lakh people were eligible to vote. A total of 77,94,300 voters are registered in the six districts, of which 41.23 lakh are males and 36.71 lakh females. Rajasthan has 33 zila parishads and 352 panchayat samitis. Of these, the elections in 21 districts were held in November-December last year. The elections in the remaining 12 districts could not take place due to a High Court stay on the creation of 19 new municipalities in these districts as the area of Panchayati Raj Institutions was revised. After the litigation issue on the delimitation process was resolved in February, the state election commission finalised voters' lists for the six districts. The voters' list in the remaining districts of Alwar, Baran, Dholpur, Karauli, Kota and Ganganagar was also finalised recently and the elections will be held later.
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