Section 31(3) in The Orissa Panchayat Samiti Election Rules, 1991
(3)On the date fixed for declaring the results of the elections, the Election Officer shall in presence of the candidates or their Polling Agents carefully check up the votes polled by different candidates arithmetically so as to arrive at the final assessment as to the total number of votes polled by each contesting candidate and announce the result after recording the details in Form No. 14.
