Notification issued for Council polls for 3 seats

Hyderabad, Apr 13 : The Election Commission of India today issued notification for conducting Legislative Council Elections in Andhra Pradesh to fill up three seats from Hyderabad Local Authorities Constituency (two members) and Hyderabad Local Authorities Constituency(one member).Informing this to reporters here, State Chief Electoral Officer I V Subba Rao said the last date for filing of nominations would be April 20.Scrutiny of nominations would be taken up on April 21 and the last date for withdrawals is April 23.The elections would be held on May 7 and counting of votes polled on May 10, he said, adding Model Code of Conduct had already come into force from April 6.As many as 223 voters-- 150 corporators and 65 ex-officio members--were eligible to exercise their preferential vote from Hyderabad and 592 voters including an MP and six MLAs could vote from Rangareddy Local Authorities Constituency, he added.
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