Dhaka: Voting begins in more than 156 union councils (UC) of different upazilas of the country on Sunday morning.

Beginning at 8:00am, the balloting will be continued till 4:00pm.

Of the UCs, some 50 in 24 upazilas will have regular elections while there will be by‐polls to different posts, including 17 of chairman posts, at the remaining UPs in 91 upazilas, according to Election Commission (EC) statistics.

EC deputy secretary Farhad Ahammad Khan said the commission declared election schedules for a total of 174 UCs, but elections to 20 UCs have been postponed due to legal complexities.

Elections only to the chairman post will be held along party line unlike the member posts and reserved seats.

The previous Election Commission, led by Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, arranged elections to over 4,000 UPs in six phases in 2016, which were largely marred by violence leaving over 100 people dead.