An estimated 58 per cent of the 1.89 crore voters exercised their franchise for the third phase of Lok Sabha polls in ten seats of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, which by and large passed off peacefully.

EC officials confirmed that polling was peaceful with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere so far.

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Till 5 pm, voting percentage in the 10 LS seats was 55.13 58 per cent, which can go up to 58 58 per cent of the by the end of the polling at 6 pm, sources said.

Like the previous two phases, the voting percentage did not cross 60 58 per cent on average.

In this phase, only Sambhal crossed 6058 per cent of the mark by 5 pm.

However, reports say in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, BJP and SP workers clashed at polling station Tejganj of te Bebar area of Kishni assembly station. There was heavy stone pelting at the polling station in which three BJP workers were injured.

In Ferozabad, around 42 fake voters have been arrested.

A report from Sambal said SP candidate and sitting MLA Ziaur Rahman Burke had a heated exchange with the police in Chaudhary Sarai of Sambhal Kotwali area.

Meanwhile, SP President Akhilesh Yadav, his wife and SP candidate Dimple Yadav and his daughter Aditi voted in Saifai.

Prominent candidates among the total 100 in the fray in this phase were Dimple Yadav, daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav and wife of SP’s National President Akhilesh Yadav, who is contesting from Mainpuri. The BJP has fielded Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh against Dimple.

Shivpal Singh Yadav’s son Aditya Yadav is in the fray from Badaun and Prof Ram Gopal Yadav’s son Akshay Yadav is the SP candidate from Firozabad.

Union Minister of State SP Singh Baghel is the BJP candidate from Agra. The BJP fielded Minister of State for Revenue Anoop Valmiki from Hathras whereas the party fielded Rajveer Singh, son of former chief minister Kalyan Singh from Etah, and former minister of state Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar from Bareilly. In Fatehpur Sikri, the BJP has given a ticket to Rajkumar Chahar while here Ramnath Sikarwar is in the fray from Congress.

Around 26 per cent of the candidates contesting in the third phase of Lok Sabha polls in UP have criminal cases against them while 46 per cent are Crorepatis.

In the past two phases, UP recorded low voting percentage which has made the political parties worry about the results.

In both the phases, the poll percentage dropped below 60 per cent.

According to the EC office here, 26.12 per cent voting was recorded till 11 am in the ten Lok Sabha seats of UP that went up to 38.12 per cent at 1 pm, 46.78 at 3 pm, and 55.13 per cent at 5 pm.

At 5 pm Agra reported 51.53 per cent voting ,followed by 57.07 per cent in Etah, 54.73 per cent in Aonla, 52.77 per cent in Badaun, 54.21 per cent in Bareilly, 54.93 per cent Fatehpur Sikri , 56.27 per cent in Firozabad, 53.54 per cent in Hathras, 55.88 per cent in Mainpuri, and 61.10 per cent in Sambhal.