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.

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.

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.

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.

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