<p>A 97-year-old woman was elected as sarpanch in the panchayat election in Rajasthan's Sikar district, the result of which was declared on Friday after day-long polling, an official said. </p>.<p>Vidhya Devi was declared the winner from Puranawas gram panchayat, falling under the Neem Ka Thana sub-division. She defeated her nearest rival Aarti Meena by 207 votes in the first phase of polling for the panchayat election in the state, Sadhuram Jat, sub-divisional officer of Neem Ka Thana, told PTI.</p>.<p>He said Devi secured 843 votes, whereas Meena could fetch only 636 votes. Out of the total 4,200 votes, 2,856 voters in the panchayat exercised their franchise. </p>.<p>Jat said a total of 11 candidates were in the fray from the gram panchayat and Devi's husband was a sarpanch from the panchayat for 25 years before 1990. </p>.<p>Polling for 26,800 wards of 2,726-gram panchayats of 87 panchayat samitis was held in the first phase of the panchayat election. There were a total of 93,20,684 voters, including 48,49,232 men and 44,71,405 women voters.</p>.<p>About 17,242 candidates for the sarpanch post and 42,000 candidates for the panch post were in the fray in the election.</p>
<p>A 97-year-old woman was elected as sarpanch in the panchayat election in Rajasthan's Sikar district, the result of which was declared on Friday after day-long polling, an official said. </p>.<p>Vidhya Devi was declared the winner from Puranawas gram panchayat, falling under the Neem Ka Thana sub-division. She defeated her nearest rival Aarti Meena by 207 votes in the first phase of polling for the panchayat election in the state, Sadhuram Jat, sub-divisional officer of Neem Ka Thana, told PTI.</p>.<p>He said Devi secured 843 votes, whereas Meena could fetch only 636 votes. Out of the total 4,200 votes, 2,856 voters in the panchayat exercised their franchise. </p>.<p>Jat said a total of 11 candidates were in the fray from the gram panchayat and Devi's husband was a sarpanch from the panchayat for 25 years before 1990. </p>.<p>Polling for 26,800 wards of 2,726-gram panchayats of 87 panchayat samitis was held in the first phase of the panchayat election. There were a total of 93,20,684 voters, including 48,49,232 men and 44,71,405 women voters.</p>.<p>About 17,242 candidates for the sarpanch post and 42,000 candidates for the panch post were in the fray in the election.</p>