Telangana GP Polls-2025 first phase | 9.3% of 4,236 Sarpanches unanimously elected; no recommendation to countermand poll in any Gram Panchayat

Of the 4236 Gram Panchayats notified under the first phase of Telangana Gram Panchayat Elections-2025, 3836 would go for polls on December 11, 2025 as 395 Sarpanches were unanimously elected. Nominations or valid nominations were not received for five Gram Panchayats (GPs).

The number of unanimously elected GPs under the first phase constituted 9.3% of the total 4,236. In the elections held in 2019, out of the 12,732 GPs notified for polls 2,134 Sarpanches were unanimously elected, which constituted around 17% and nominations were not received for 24 Panchayats.

This year, a total of 12,728 GPs and 1,12,242 Wards were notified for polls. The polls would be held in three phases — December 11, 14 and 17. The list of candidates contesting in the second phase would be published on Saturday (December 6, 2025). And, the last date to receive nominations for the third phase is Friday.

The State Election Commission has earlier announced a multi-layered procedure in an attempt to put a check on auctioning of the posts, to avoid uncontested elections. This involved forming a monitoring cell, verifying reports or complaints on posts auctioning, taking declarations from withdrawing and the elected candidate. After following the procedure, if the poll environment is found to be vitiated, the District Election Authority (DEA) concerned may recommend cancellations of the polls in the GP or Ward concerned. However, it was learnt that no such recommendation to countermand the polls in any GP or Ward was received under the first phase.