60.96% turnout recorded in 91 urban local body polls

Voters wait in a queue to exercise their franchise at a polling booth in Peda Jalaripeta, in the East Assembly Constituency during the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) elections in Visakhapatnam on November 1, 2026. | Photo Credit: V. Raju

The State Election Commission announced that the final voting percentage, recorded at 5 p.m., stood at 60.96% across the 12 Municipal Corporations and 79 Municipalities and Nagar Panchayats that went to the polls on November 1. In Greater Visakhapatnam, turnout was 50.02% as of 3 p.m., with the final report yet to be submitted.

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Out of 96,89,061 voters, 59,06,255 cast their votes. Chimakurthy municipality in Prakasam district recorded the highest polling at 84.36%.

Kanigiri in Markapuram district (where the election was held only in two wards) had the second-highest voter turnout of 83.86% and it was followed by Gudur (K) in Kurnool district with 83.73%.

Four other municipalities — Penukonda, Nandikotkur, Badvel and Nellimarla — had polling percentages exceeding 80%. Among the 12 Municipal Corporations whose final data has been furnished by the SEC, Ongole registered the highest polling percentage of 71.27%, and Tirupati the lowest at 46.85.

Repolls

Meanwhile, the Commission ordered repolling in polling station 15/2 of Ward No.15 in Kadapa Municipal Corporation, and polling stations 1/1, 3/1, 7/1 and 8/1 in Ward Nos. 1, 3, 7 & 8 of Pulivendula and polling stations 3/2, 17/1 and 29/1 of Ward Nos.3, 17 and 29 in Jammalamadugu municipality on grounds of booth capturing.

Published - November 02, 2026 10:44 am IST