Summary:
Counting of votes for the Urban Local Bodies in Uttarakhand began on Tuesday.The polling for the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections on Sunday saw a record turnout with most districts recording over 60% turnout. Veena Sharma, an Independent candidate, was second and Congress candidate Laxmi Sajwan was third. Voters came out in large numbers and exercised their franchise to elect members of the 84 urban bodies that went to polls in the state.Barring few minor incidents, no clashes or untoward incident was reported during polling.There were 23.53 lakh voters — 12.20 lakh male and 11.33 lakh females — in the 84 urban local bodies across Uttarakhand. NAINITAL: In a major jolt to BJP, Congress won the Chairmanship of Champawat Nagar Palike in the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections held in Uttarakhand Vijay Verma of Congress got 1315 votes, while an Independent candidate Prakash Pandey got 914 votes. Nainital recorded 65.79%, Bageshwar had 70.02% polling, Chamoli recorded 65.79% turnout, Tehri was at 66.01%, Rudraprayag recorded 66.64%, of Pithoragarh was at 63.86%, Uttarkashi recorded 66.84% and Pauri recorded 70.04% turnout..