Election Commission declares names of panchayats elected uncontested

GANGTOK, 15 Oct: The State Election Commission has declared the names of candidates elected uncontested to the Zilla panchayats and Gram panchayats 2012; all these candidates belong to the Sikkim Democratic Front and have been declared uncontested from their respective territorial constituencies and wards in the state. They have been declared under Sub-rule (2) of Rule 39 of the Sikkim Panchayat (Conduct of Election) Rules, 1997.
The SDF has swept 38 of 110 Zilla Panchayat seats; in another interesting fact emerging from the declaration by the SEC is that the SDF has also swept 33 of the 174 GPUs all over the state.
From West District, 5 Zilla panchayats have been declared uncontested to their respective territorial constituency seats; besides another 181 SDF candidates in the Gram panchayat wards have been declared uncontested as well.
In addition another piece of interesting information emerging is that there are a total of 9 Gram Panchayat Units (GPUs) in West district which have been swept by the SDF; in other words, 9 GPUs in West will see no contest as no candidate of any other party or independent candidate has filed nomination from these GPUs.
In South district, 13 Zilla panchayats have been declared uncontested out of a total of 28. In the Gram panchayat wards 172 have been declared uncontested by the SEC out of a total 271 seats; among these uncontested figures there are a total of 11 GPUs which have no opposing candidate to the SDF; so these 11 GPUs have been swept by the SDF.
In East district, the SEC has declared 6 Zilla panchayats, all SDF members as uncontested out of a total of 32 seats. Among the total of 290 Gram panchayat wards 133 have been declared uncontested and among these wards there are 6 GPUs which will not see any contest.
In North district, out of a total of 20 Zilla seats 14 have been declared uncontested, all from SDF. Another 80 Gram panchayat wards have been declared uncontested out of a total of 109 wards. Among these wards it emerges that there are 7 GPUs which have been swept by the SDF party and so will not see any contest.