According to the data obtained, 67.26 percent of votes were cast in Fazilka district, 67.53 percent in Sangrur, 68 percent in Pathankot, 58.9 percent in Ludhiana, 57.99 percent in Jalandhar, 59 percent in Patiala and 65.15 percent in Mohali district. While 3798 Gram Panchayats have already been unanimously elected. 25588 candidates for 13225 posts of Sarpanch and 80598 candidates for 83427 posts of Panch were in the election field. A large number of sarpanches of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party were victorious in these elections. Even in many panchayats that were unanimously elected before the elections, most of the sarpanches belonged to the Aam Aadmi Party. On the election day, the highlight was that the Supreme Court refused to stay the Panchayat elections in Punjab citing alleged irregularities in the process of nominations. The Supreme Court said that if the elections are stopped on the polling day, it will lead to unnecessary ‘commotion’.
There was great enthusiasm among the people to cast their votes for the Panchayat elections. A large number of people started arriving as soon as the voting started at 8 am, due to which long queues of people were formed outside the polling stations across Punjab. Along with the youth, the elderly and women also reached the polling station to vote, who exercised their right to vote.
Despite many claims of the Punjab government to conduct panchayat elections in a peaceful manner in Punjab, there have been reports of violence in many places during the panchayat elections. During the voting, firing was fired at three places in the state. Clashes took place in about a dozen districts of Punjab and stone pelting took place in some places.
