Single Transferable Vote – An apprisal
Single Transferable Vote – An apprisal
As the members are aware that the elections of the Institute to the Council and Regional Councils are held by following the system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote and in accordance with the Chartered
Accountants (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006 read with Regulation 134 of the Chartered Accountants Regulations, 1988.
The term of the current (i.e. 24th) Council of the Institute is upto 11th February 2022 while the Regional Councils will be reconstituted soon after the Council (i.e. 25th) is reconstituted in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 of the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949.
Accordingly, the next elections to the Council and Regional Councils of the Institute will be held on 3rd and 4th December, 2021 at Agra, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhayandar, Bhilwara, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chinchwad, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi/New Delhi, Dombivali, Faridabad, Ghaziabad (including Indirapuram, Sahibabad and Vaishali), Gurugram, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kalyan, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kota, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Meerut, Mira Road, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, Navi Mumbai, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Surat, Thane, Udaipur, Vadodara, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and for one day on 4th December, 2021 at all other places where polling booths have been set up.
All Polling booths set up across the country will be functional from 8.00 am to 8.00 pm on each day of polling. A member can know his/her polling booth by visiting www.icai.org under link Election-2021.
The members, especially the first time voters, would naturally be interested in knowing as to how the “single transferable vote” system, under which the elections are held, operates.
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