Chhattisgarh polls: Results of low turnout constituencies to come first

Raipur, December 04

While counting for recently held assembly polls will be done on December 8 and results will be announced on the same day, the political parties and voters are anxious to know the names of candidates whose position would be clear first and the ones who would have to keep their cool for long. According to turnout, the results of constituencies with low voting would appear early while that of high voting would be announced in the end.

The Election Commission has done adequate arrangements for counting that will be done in 27 district headquarters. There will be 14 tables for each constituency. In every round, 14,000 votes will be counted.

Among 90 assembly constituencies, Maoist-infested Bijapur marked least number of votes, i.e. 69,826. The result of this constituency will appear first as its counting will complete in just five rounds.

After Bijapur, Konta and Manendragarh Vidhan Sabha areas recorded low voting with 75,847 and 90,000 votes respectively. Hence, the result of these areas will be declared in six and seven rounds of counting.

Contrarily, voting in Kasdol and Kawardha constituencies was high with 2,21,779 and 2,18,897 votes respectively. The counting of Kasdol area will complete in 17 rounds while that of Kawardha will be over in 16 rounds. Therefore their results will be announced in the end.

Besides Kasdol and Kawardha, there are 54 constituencies that record high voting and their counting will go beyond ten rounds. Among these constituencies are Rajnandgaon, Bilha and Saja from where CM Raman Singh, State assembly speaker Dharamlal Kaushik and leader of opposition Ravindra Choubey were in fray respectively.

Besides, the fate of five ministers, Nankiram Kanwar, Chandrashekhar Sahu, Dayaldas Baghel, Punnulal Mohle and Ramvichar Netam, too would be decided in over ten rounds of counting.

However, the result of constituencies represented by seven other ministers, Brijmohan Agrawal, Rajesh Munat, Hemchand Yadav, Kedar Kashyap, Lata Usendi, Amar Agrawal and Vikram Usendi, will be announced before ten rounds of counting.