Section 32(3) in The Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets (Election to Market Committees), Rules 1961
(3)[On the date fixed for the counting of votes,] [Substituted for the words 'immediately after the voting is over' vide notification No. GSR 264/PA 23/61/S. 43/Amd 6/66 dated 11.10.1966.] under rule 26 (1)], the Returning Officer shall count the votes in the presence of such candidates as may be present and declare the result in the following manner :-(a)the candidate who is found to have obtained the largest number of valid votes, shall be declared to have been elected;(b)in the event of a number of contesting candidates polling the same number of votes, the Returning Officer shall draw lots in the presence of such candidates and the candidate whose name in first drawn shall be declared to have been duly elected.
