Mountains and glaciers no barriers for Tashigang and Bara-Bhangal voters
7 months, 1 week ago

Mountains and glaciers no barriers for Tashigang and Bara-Bhangal voters

Hindustan Times  

Rough terrain was no barrier for voters at the world’s highest and one of Himachal’s remotest polling stations at Tashigang and Bara-Bhangal — which posted 80% and 85% turnout for the Lok Sabha polls. “I appealed to all the voters in the region to reach the polling station at the earliest to participate and partake in the festival of democracy,” Tenzin Nordun, another voter said. The polling station in Tashigang was set up for the first time in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Tasked to set up the booth for 159 voters, who had decided to cast their ballot at an auxiliary polling booth set up at Bara-Bhangal, a polling party was airlifted from Yol Cantt, in Dharamshala on Thursday.

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Himachal Pradesh elections: Highest polling station to see 100% turnout
2 years, 2 months ago

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Hindustan Times  

Tashigang, which has the world’s highest polling station at 15,256 feet in Himachal Pradesh’s border district of Lahaul and Spiti, is set to retain its record of 100% voter turnout in the November 12 assembly elections. Schoolchildren presenting a folk song as the Election Commission team, led by poll observer Saroj Kumar, looks on after inspecting the highest polling station …

World's highest polling station records 53% voting in two hours
5 years, 7 months ago

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India TV News  

The world's highest polling station in Himachal Pradesh’s Tashiganag village at 15,256 feet took little than two hours to climb up to 53 per cent voting on Sunday. There are a total of 49 registered voters in Tashigang polling station in tribal Lahaul and Spiti district, State's Assistant Chief Electoral Officer Harbans Lal Dhiman said. Dhiman said that earlier Hikkim …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: At 15,256 ft, Tashigang in Himachal Pradesh is world’s highest polling station

Hindustan Times  

Tucked away deep in trans-Himalayas, Tashigang, a small Himachal Pradesh village at an altitude of 15,256 feet, is now the highest polling station in the world. The polling station falls in Buddhist-dominated Lahaul-Spiti, one of the 17 assembly segments that form the Mandi Lok Sabha seat, the second largest constituency in India. Earlier, the non-descript tiny settlement of Hikkim, positioned …

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