Out of 15.65 lakh voters registered in 100 wards of the city, only 7.63 lakh had voted for the local body elections on Saturday.
As per the data shared by Coimbatore Corporation the polling percentage is 48.79. Corporation sources said this is likely to increase, but only marginally as COVID-19 persons voted between 5 pm and 6 pm
As the urban local body elections kicked off on Saturday, Tiruppur district recorded a polling percentage of 60.66%.
According to the district administration, 6,88,320 people voted in Tiruppur Corporation, six municipalities and 15 nagar panchayats on Saturday. Male voters (3,47,502) were slightly higher than female voters (3,40,775) and 43 third gender voters exercised their franchise in urban local bodies.
As per the final polling data, among urban local bodies, Nagar Panchayats recorded the highest voter turnout at 75.34%, followed by Municipalities with 66.35% and Tiruppur Corporation at 55.4%.
Voting was delayed by about 30 minutes at a booth of Nagar Middle School Parapalayam in Tiruppur Corporation’s ward number 42 due to a fault in the EVMs. Polling personnel replaced it with reserve EVMs. At Nagar Middle School in Karuvampalayam in Ward No 43, DMK cadre and independent candidate P. A verbal spat broke out between Ramesh as the latter allegedly violated the model code of conduct by wearing a shawl that displayed the party’s flag in the former, police said.
In Kangayam Municipality, two men allegedly got into a fight with police personnel at ward number 13 after they were not allowed inside the polling booth after 5 pm, officials said. Kangayam Municipal Commissioner S Venkateshwaran was on the spot Arrived and explained to them that only COVID-19 patients as per the order of the state government would be allowed to vote between 5 pm and 6 pm, after which the men dispersed.
Information and Publicity Minister MP Saminathan casts his vote at a polling booth at Panchayat Union Middle School in Muthur town panchayat near Kangeyam. In the afternoon, District Election Officer and Collector S. Vineet along with Corporation Commissioner and Returning Officer Kranti Kumar Pati monitored 217 sensitive polling stations of all urban local bodies through CCTV cameras at the Integrated Command and Control Center at Tirupur Corporation Headquarters.
Elections were held for 420 seats out of 440 wards, including 60 in Tiruppur Corporation, 147 in six municipalities and 233 in 15 nagar panchayats, as 20 candidates had already been elected unopposed. Dharapuram, Palladam, Vellakoil, Kangeyam, Udumalpet and Thirumuruganpondi were the municipalities and the panchayats included Samalapuram, Kunnathur, Rudravati, Avinashi, Sangarmanallur, Chinnakkampalayam, Uthukuli, Komaralingam, Muthur, Kaniyur, Mulathulapalyam, Kola, Kola. District. According to Tiruppur district administration, a total of 1,299 polling stations were set up in urban local bodies, out of which 224 were identified as vulnerable.
In the Nilgiris, polling started on a slow pace but picked up by the end of the day, with 58.82% of votes cast till 5 pm, with those who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are currently recovering. was allowed to vote. 5 pm and 6 pm.
Polling in Erode district was conducted peacefully as more than 68% voters exercised their democratic right. A total of 2,722 candidates were in the fray for 769 posts in the four municipalities of Erode Corporation, Gobichettipalayam, Bhavani, Sathyamangalam and Punjai Puliyampatti and 42 nagar panchayats in the district. Barring a technical snag in the two EVMs that halted polling for less than an hour, no adverse incidents occurred. Over 2500 police personnel were deployed for security while 55 micro observers monitored the polling at 184 sensitive booths.
There was a fast turnout of 70.54 per cent in Salem.
Elections were held for 60 wards under the Salem Corporation, 165 wards in the municipalities of Attur, Mettur, Edappadi, Narsingapuram, Idanganasalai and Tharamangalam and 474 wards in 31 municipalities here. Four candidates contesting the elections to Nagar Panchayats were elected unopposed after scrutiny of nomination papers. For the elections, 1,514 polling stations including 709 booths were set up in the Salem Corporation limits. 7,267 polling personnel were deployed here for election work. 13,56,308 voters will exercise their franchise in the election.
At the end of polling, 70.54 percent polling percentage was recorded in the district. The polling was 64.36 per cent in Salem Corporation, 76.61 per cent in six municipalities and 78.49 per cent in Nagar Panchayats.
In the elections of Dharmapuri Municipality and 10 Nagar Panchayats, a total of 80.49 percent voting was recorded in Dharmapuri on Saturday. Dharmapuri Municipality polled 81.37% marginally higher than the voting percentage of 10 Nagar Panchayats which polled 80.14%. 64.33% voter turnout was recorded till 5 pm in Krishnagiri. Krishnagiri Municipality polled the highest 74.03% while Nagar Panchayats polled 73.04%. Hosur Corporation, which has the largest number of first-time voters after attaining corporation status, got only 58.50% voter turnout.
The final polling percentage for Krishnagiri Municipality was yet to be declared till 6 pm. Hosur Corporation got 63.97% votes, while Nagar Panchayats got 75.8% votes. Out of 6 Nagar Panchayats, Nagojanahalli recorded 84.07% voter turnout; While Uthangaray polled the lowest with 69.89%. Krishnagiri recorded an average polling percentage of 52.61%, with a high percentage polling till 3 pm in rural nagar panchayats, 47.31% in Hosur Corporation and 60.08% in Krishnagiri municipality. However, the average turnout in the city panchayats was 61.43 per cent, which was higher than the district’s polling average till 3 pm.
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