Bengal records 78% voter turnout till 5 pm in fifth phase
Elections | Apr 17, 2021, 08:54 PM ISTThe polling for the fifth phase of West Bengal assembly elections across 45 assembly segments concluded on Saturday amid tight security.
The polling for the fifth phase of West Bengal assembly elections across 45 assembly segments concluded on Saturday amid tight security.
A voter turnout of over 63 per cent was recorded in the fourth and last phase of the election for zila parishad and panchayat samiti members in Rajasthan on Saturday, officials said.
As the first phase of polling for the Jammu and Kashmir District Development Council (DDC) elections concluded on Saturday, the voting percentage of 51.76 percent was recorded across different districts of the Union Territory.
Around 62 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the first phase of Rajasthan panchayat elections on Monday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday informed that Bihar Assembly Election 2020 first phase witnessed a total voter turnout of 55.69 per cent.
The overall voter turnout Delhi assembly elections on Saturday was 62.59 percent, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer said on Sunday.
About forty percent polling was recorded till 1 pm for two assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh, a state election official said on Monday.
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An estimated 71 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 6 pm on Saturday whereas the final polling percentage has now gone up as voters were still in the queue, an official of the state CEO's office said.
In an unprecedented development, 2019 recorded the highest ever voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election at 67.11 per cent. But it is also pertinent to mention that the Election Commission figures are provisional and are subject to change.
According to the election officials, angry voters ransacked the polling booth in Nalanda and held the Block Development Officer hostage. No voting took place in the booth.
Voting began at 7 a.m. in the constituencies of Patiala, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib (SC), Faridkot (SC), Ferozpur, Bathinda, Sangrur and Gurdaspur. Polling will end at 6 p.m.
Polling began at 7 am in Shimla (SC), Mandi, Hamirpur and Kangra.
The electorate also includes 22,00,119 female and 21 third gender voters.
Altogether 157 candidates including four Union Ministers are in the fray in the seventh and final phase of polling in Bihar.
Elections were held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eight constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, four in Jharkhand and seven seats in Delhi where votes were cast by a number of public figures, including President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Over 1.43 crore people in Delhi were eligible to vote in this election. Out of total 164 candidates, 18 are women while there are 43 Independent candidates.
The Election Commission of India has setup a polling booth for this singular voter in the middle of a dense, isolated jungle of Gujarat’s Junagadh district.
Vijayi (65) was waiting for her turn to vote at the Chokli Rama vilasam L P School booth near Panur, which comes under Vatakara constituency when she collapsed, police said.
Barring a few isolated incidents of violence, polling has largely been peaceful in Balurghat, Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur and Murshidabad Lok Sabha seats, he said.
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