{"id":329354,"date":"2020-12-10T05:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329354"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:17:40","slug":"voting-underway-for-fifth-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-fifth-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting concludes for fifth phase of DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-fifth-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/fifth-phase-elec\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-329355\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329355 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/fifth-phase-elec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"989\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/fifth-phase-elec.jpg 989w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/fifth-phase-elec-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/fifth-phase-elec-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/fifth-phase-elec-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/fifth-phase-elec-699x420.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a>Polling for the fifth phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir was held on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The polling for 37 DDC seats \u2014 17 in Kashmir and 20 in Jammu division \u2014 began at 7 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Voting was also held for 58 vacant sarpanch and 218 vacant panch seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">There are a total of 299 candidates in the electoral fray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The first phase of DDC elections was held on November 28 and saw a voter turnout of 51.76 per cent. The second phase which was held on December 1, saw a voter turnout of 48.62 per cent, the third phase of DDC elections which was held on December 4, witnessed a voter turnout of 50.53 per cent, whereas the fourth phase was held on December 7 and saw voter turnout over 50 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The DDC elections are being held in eight phases, with the last phase going to poll on December 19. The counting of votes will take place on December 22.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling for the fifth phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir was held on Thursday. The polling for 37 DDC seats \u2014 17 in Kashmir and 20 in Jammu division \u2014 began at 7 am. Voting was also held for 58 vacant sarpanch and 218 vacant panch seats. There are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":329355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[13732,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329379,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329354\/revisions\/329379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}