Gujarat local body polls: Counting of votes to begin soon By ANI| Posted by Sameer | Published: 23rd February 2021 9:00 am IST Arrangements of counting votes underway. (Photo/ANI) Vadodara: Counting of votes polled in elections to six municipal corporations of Gujarat that were held on Sunday, will start at 9 am on Tuesday. District Collector Shalini Agarwal during a press conference on Monday said: “We are following the COVID-19 protocol and proper security arrangements have been taken place at the eight-strong rooms. The counting of votes will begin at 9 am tomorrow.” Six civic bodies The six civic bodies – Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar – were being ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party.