NEW DELHI: The second phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections saw nearly 61 per cent voter turnout as people avoided venturing out of homes in the summer heat and voted largely in the morning and evening. The ECI data showed the highest voting percentage was recorded in Tripura which registered 79.25 per cent polling, followed by Manipur 77.32 per …
New Delhi: Moderate polling was recorded till noon in the bypoll to six assembly constituencies in five states and the Mainpuri parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh on Monday amid complaints of glitches in EVMs and allegations by the Samajwadi Party that the police and administration were preventing people from casting vote. The bypoll to the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat is …
BHUBANESWAR: Around 65% of Odisha’s 40.55 lakh voters cast their votes in the polls to 109 urban local bodies of Odisha including three municipal corporations Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur amid reports of violence in parts of the state. In Cuttack Municipal Corporation, 65% polling was recorded while in Berhampur Municipal Corporation, just about 47% cast their vote, said state election …
A report from Ghaziabad said a minor skirmish took place between supporters of BJP leader VK Singh and Congress leader Rajan Kant where the security personnel had to intervene Around 61.46 per cent voter turnout was recorded on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh, where polling was held across 58 Assembly constituencies in 11 districts. “An average 57.79 per cent polling was …
In some places, voters waited in queues for over an hour and some even returned home without casting votes as technical snags affected the functioning of over 75 EVMs or VVPATs in Munger, Arwal, Gaya, and Nawada districts, reports said Nearly 53.46 percent of 2.14 crore electors are projected to have voted Wednesday in phase one of the three-phase Bihar …