Overview
- Balloting, which began Sunday at 7 am, runs until 3 pm at 589 polling stations for contests in four municipal corporations, 25 municipal councils and 22 nagar panchayats.
- Officials reported 14% turnout by 9 am, with about 3.6 lakh eligible voters choosing among 1,147 candidates across the state.
- Votes for municipal councils and nagar panchayats will be counted tonight, while the four municipal corporations, fought on party symbols, will be counted on May 31.
- Campaigning ended Friday after high-profile pushes by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu for Congress and Anurag Thakur for the BJP, with both parties pressing voters on development and governance claims.
- In Mohali, where polling is set for May 26 by paper ballots, the nomination window closed Saturday with 1,175 contenders for seven civic bodies and a notable wave of Independents reshaping ward-level contests.