A voter turnout of over 30% was recorded till 2 pm in the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections in Punjab on Sunday (December 14), officials said.

The polling began at 8 am and continued till at 4 pm. The counting of votes will take place on December 17.

Elections were held to elect members of 347 zones of 22 zila parishads and 2,838 zones of 153 panchayat samitis. Over 9,000 candidates were in the fray, and a total of 1.36 crore voters were eligible to cast their ballots.

According to officials, the voting percentage till 2 pm was 30.21%.

Earlier in the day, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann appealed to voters through X to come out in large numbers to cast their ballot. Later, he, along with his wife, visited a polling booth in Sangrur district to cast votes.

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