{"id":329423,"date":"2020-12-13T05:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T05:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329423"},"modified":"2020-12-13T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T11:35:15","slug":"voting-underway-for-sixth-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-sixth-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting concludes for sixth 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-sixth-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/ddc-elections-6th-phase\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-329424\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329424 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1015\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase-696x478.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/ddc-elections-6th-phase-612x420.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\" \/><\/a>Polling for the Sixth phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir was held on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The polling for 31 DDC seats \u2014 14 in Kashmir and 17 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;\">There are a total of 245 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;\">Voting was also held for 77 vacant sarpanch and 334 vacant panch seats.<\/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. Voting for the fifth phase was held on December 10.<\/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 Sixth phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir was held on Sunday. The polling for 31 DDC seats \u2014 14 in Kashmir and 17 in Jammu division \u2014 began at 7 am. There are a total of 245 candidates in the electoral fray. Voting was also held for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":329424,"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\/329423"}],"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=329423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329437,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329423\/revisions\/329437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}