Jai Ram Thakur’s decision to fight the polls on party symbols is to measure his own acceptability on the performance graph.

Counting is underway in 12 municipal corporations and 71 municipalities or nagar panchayats, which went to polls on March 10.

The State Election Commission on Saturday announced the schedule for the elections for Dharamshala, Palampur, Solan and Mandi.

Elections were held for the 8,235 seats, out of which the BJP fielded 8,161 candidates, Congress 7,778, Aam Aadmi Party 2,090, among others

Polling in the national capital began at 7:30 am amid tight security arrangements and precautionary Covid-19 arrangements and the results are expected on March 3

While the BJP retained power in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) by winning 93 seats, the AAP bagged the remaining 27 seats.

Winning 409 seats out of 474, the BJP is on its course to retain power in the six municipal corporations of Gujarat

Voting took place on Sunday in 576 seats across six municipal corporations.

Gujarat Municipal Election Result 2021: Polling for 576 seats in 144 wards across six civic bodies –Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar - was held on Sunday (February 21).

When BJP announced its candidates for the upcoming Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Sonal Modi's name was nowhere to be seen in the list.

TRS loses vote share too, AIMIM retains vote bank but Cong routed in GHMC polls.

Very low turnout shows people’s apathy towards political parties

The election for three municipal corporations, 18 Nagar Parishads and 28 Nagar Palikas were held on Saturday.

The civic body poll was a high-stake battle for the ruling BJP that was looking to match its own impressive showing in the Uttarakhand elections last year when it had won 57 out of 70 assembly seats.

The low turnout in Urban and Local Body (ULB) elections in Jammu and Kashmir signals a change in the mood of the rural electorate in the Valley.

The polls to urban local bodies in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in four phases with the first completed Monday.

"I do agree that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir should improve. But, the problem that we face is mostly because of Pakistan," said the Home Minister.

In Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, BJP fielded candidates in 13 out of 17 wards and won unopposed.

The counting of votes will be taken up on October 20. 322 wards have been reserved for women belonging to open category.

Four parties -- National Conference (NC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Bahujan Samaj Party -- have announced that they will be boycotting the polls.