A 72.57 per cent polling was recorded in all nine wards of the Nurpur Municipal Council (MC) that concluded peacefully at 3 pm on Sunday. The highest 85.56 per cent polling was recorded in the Ward No. 1 polling booth. The MC has 8,298 voters, including 4,139 women who outnumbered men in exercising their right to franchise. A total of 6,022 voters (73.08 per cent men and 72.04 per cent women) cast their vote. Long queues were witnessed in almost every polling booth since morning and women and new voters were seen more enthusiastic about casting their vote. However, a direct contest between the Congress and BJP-supported candidates was witnessed in Ward No. 1 to 7 but the presence of Independent candidates in the fray in Ward No. 8 and 9 has made it a three-cornered contest there. Prem Dass Sahotra (100), accompanied by his son Arun Sahotra, cast his vote in the polling booth of Ward No. 2 while SL Gupta (95) came on his own to cast his vote in the polling booth of Ward No. 6.
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