UP civic body elections: Kanpur to vote on November 22

Kanpur: First phase of the Uttar Pradesh civic body elections will be held on Wednesday.

Kanpur is among the 24 districts that will go to polls on November 22.

Besides Kanpur, polling will be held in Shamli, Meerut, Hapur, Bijnore, Badaun, Hathras, Kasganj, Agra, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Chitrakoot, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Unnao, Hardoi, Amethi, Faizabad, Gonda, Basti, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Ghazipur and Sonebhadra.

In phase one, polling would be held for five municipal corporations, 71 nagar palika parishads and 154 nagar panchayats.

In total, 230 local bodies will go to polls in the first phase, which includes 4,095 wards. There are 1.09 crore voters in this phase who will exercise their franchise at 11,679 booths.

In the first phase, 56 candidates are in the fray for five mayor seats, 901 for the chairperson's post in the 71 nagar palikas and 3,856 nominees for the 1,819 nagar palika wards.