According to the ECI, among all districts, Yamunanagar is leading with the highest voting percentage of 56.79 percent followed by Mewat with 56.59 percent, Palwal with 56.02 percent and Jind with 53.94 percent while the lowest voter turnout is recorded in Gurugram with 38.61 percent.
With a 70.02% turnout, women voters in the third phase of the J&K Assembly polls on 1 October outnumbered men, whose turnout was 69.37%, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Thursday.
The assembly elections in J&K held after a gap of ten years witnessed polling in three phases. The first phase recorded 57.31% polling, while 61.38% of votes were cast in the second phase.
The first phase recorded 57.31 per cent polling, while 61.38 per cent votes were cast in the second phase.
The polling started at 7 AM in all 5,060 polling stations across 40 Assembly Constituencies of seven districts namely Kupwara, Baramulla and Bandipora in Kashmir Division; and Jammu, Udhampur, Kathua and Samba in Jammu Division.
Polling was scheduled to continue till 6 pm but long queues of voters were still there outside the booths. The constituency recorded 67.22 per cent voting till 5 pm and the final figure was expected later in the evening.
The Samajwadi Party posted on social media alleging that names of about 1500 voters are missing from the voter list at Booth Number 172 of village Masavi under Bhawan Thana in Kairana Lok Sabha.
The Nodal officers will further give it to the concerned Returning officers (ROs) or the Assistant Returning officers (AROs) under proper receipt with dates when these forms are handed over.
Interestingly, polling in the state was slightly higher than the last elections till the afternoon, with 37.3 per cent against 36.8 per cent in 2019 by 1 pm, but it came down substantially and the graph never went up after that.
The Election Commission of India said the voting percentage is likely to go upwards when reports from all polling stations are obtained. Final figures will be known tomorrow after the scrutiny of the available data, an ECI official said.
