J&K urban local body elections: 88 candidates win without contest in third phase to be held on Saturday
Jammu and Kashmir local body polls
Eighty-eight candidates have alreadybeen declared winners without any opposition in the urban local body elections inJammu and Kashmir(J&K) in five districts ahead of the third phase of elections on Saturday.
Out of the 110 candidates, eight-eight candidates have won the polls without a contest.No one filed any nomination from 23 wards.
On Saturday, out of the 157 wards in the fivedistricts in the Kashmir Valley, polls will be held in40 wards where 110 candidates will be fighting the elections.
At least 2 lakh 35 thousand voters are expected to exercise their franchise in the third phase of the polls.
The voting for the second phase of the urban local body polls in Jammu and Kashmir took place on Wednesday. The polls received about 80 per cent of voter turnout in Jammu while it was 3.4 per cent came out to vote in Kashmir.
The Valley witnessed a low voter turnout in the first phase of municipal polls which concluded on October 8. The first phase of elections saw 70 per cent voter turnout in Jammu regionand 8.2 per cent in the Valley.
The four-phase urban local body elections began on October 8 and will end on October 16.