Uttar Pradesh civic polls 2017 will be held in three phases in Nov: EC

Lucknow: The local body polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held in three phases on Nov 22, 26 and 29, the state election commission announced on Friday.

The counting of votes will take place on December 1.

"As per the schedule, 24 districts will go to polls on November 22, 25 districts on November 26, and 26 districts on November 29," State Election Commissioner SK Agarwal told reporters here.

He said no central para-military force would be used for exercise, which will be conducted by the state police alone.

"Counting of votes polled for 16 nagar nigam, 198 nagar palika parishad and 438 nagar panchayat will be done on December one," he said.

Agarwal said 3.32 crore voters will be eligible to cast their ballots at 36,269 polling booths and 11,389 polling stations.

Giving phase-wise details, he said the first phase will cover 24 districts in which 230 local bodies, spread over 4,095 wards, will got to polls.

For this phase, there will be 3,731 polling centres and 11,683 polling booths with total over 1.09 crore voters.

The second phase will cover 25 districts having 189 local bodies covering 3,601 wards.

The polls will be held at 13,776 polling booths to be set up for 1.29 crore voters, he said.

In the third and last phases, 26 districts will go to polls in which there are 233 local bodies spread over 4,299 wards.

For this phase, there will be 10,810 polling booths for over 94 lakh voters.

Voters can get the results on their cellphones if they register their mobile numbers on poll panel's website.

Around 25 lakh voters have already registered their mobile numbers. The results will also be made available on the State Election Commission's mobile application.

Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, BSP and SP are all set to contest the elections to 653 urban local bodies, including 16 municipal corporations.

Two new corporations - Mathura-Vrindavan and Ayodhya – have been formed before the polls.

In 2012, the BJP had swept the civic polls, winning 10 of the 12 mayoral posts.

(With agency inputs)