Thiruvananthapuram: Reckoning of votes of the recently-concluded local body polls has commenced in 244 centres across the state on Wednesday.  The counting process started at 8.00 am and the state election commission expects all the results to be out by the afternoon.

On priority, postal votes,  including special postal ballots for Covid patients and those in quarantine and the postal ballots of officials deployed for election duty, are being counted first. The counting of votes in municipalities and corporations will be held in the respective distribution-reception centres. 

​For the 3-tier local bodies, the counting of votes will be held at the block level. While Ernakulam has the highest number of counting centres at 28, the least number of counting centres (seven) is in Wayanad.

The State Election Commission expects the total number of postal ballots to be in the range of around 25-50 in a booth. Therefore, it does not expect a major delay in result declaration, in spite of an increased number of postal votes this time.

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