Hyderabad, Dec. 17 -- Polling has commenced for the third and final phase of the Panchayat elections in Telangana. A total of 53,06,395 eligible voters, including 26,01,861 men, 27,04,394 women, and 140 from other categories, are set to cast their votes across 36,452 polling stations.

Voting will continue until 1 pm, after which counting will begin at 2 pm, and the results will be announced soon after.

The election notification covered 4,159 gram panchayats across 182 mandals for this phase. Out of these, nominations were not filed for 11 sarpanch seats, and 394 seats were uncontested.

In two gram panchayats, the courts have stayed the elections. For the remaining 3,752 sarpanch seats, 12,652 candidates are contesting.

Notifications i...