Maharashtra panchayat election results 2021 live updates: BJP wins 12 seats while Congress 5 in Nagpur's Koradi gram panchayat

Nagpur: BJP wins 12 seats while Congress 5 in Koradi gram panchayat, the home of BJP general secretary Chandrashekhar Bawankule.

Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Abitkar celebrates with party workers

Nagpur: NCP wins 5 seats in home minister Anil Deshmukh's constituency Katol

Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leading in five seats.

The districts and the district-wise number of gram panchayats where polling is being held are as follows: Thane (158), Palghar (3), Raigad (88), Ratnagiri (479), Sindhudurg (70), Nashik (620), Dhule (218), Jalgaon (783), Ahmednagar (767), Nandurbar (86), Pune (748), Solapur (658), Satara (879), Sangli (152), Kolhapur (433), Aurangabad (618), Beed (129), Nanded (1,015), Osmanabad (428), Parbhani (566), Jalna (475), Latur (408), Hingoli (495), Amravati (553), Akola (225), Yavatmal (980), Washim (152), Buldhana (527), Nagpur (130), Wardha (50), Chandrapur (629), Bhandara (148), Gondia (189) and Gadchiroli (362).

The gram panchayats are considered the third tier of governance. Elections for them are not held on party lines, using party symbols. Candidates are allotted election symbols from a list of free symbols.

The poll panel had earlier this week canceled the election process in Umrane and Khondamali gram panchayats in Nashik and Nandurbar districts, respectively, after it received evidence of auctioning of posts of sarpanchs and other members.

The Commission had allowed those suffering from coronavirus infection or those in quarantine to cast their vote half-an-hour before the polling ended.

A total of 2,41,598 candidates were in the race post scrutiny and withdrawal of nominations. As many as 26,718 of these candidates faced no rivals, so they would be declared elected unopposed.

On Friday, polling was held for 1,25,709 seats, for which nominations had been received from 3,56,221 candidates.