Panaji: The Goa State Election Commission on Saturday announced that elections for all 50 Zilla Panchayat constituencies will be held on December 20.

State Election Commissioner Menino D’Souza told reporters in Panaji that nominations will be accepted from December 1 onwards.

D’Souza said that the last date for filing nomination papers will be December 9, while the documents will be scrutinised on December 10.

The SEC has fixed December 11 as the last date to withdraw nominations, he said, adding that the counting of votes will be held on December 22.

He said that a total of 8,68,637 voters are eligible to vote in this election, which includes 4,39,480 from North Goa and 4,29,157 from South Goa.

D’Souza said that the maximum permitted expenditure per candidate in this election is Rs 5

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