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New Delhi, May 10: An estimated 50 to 55 per cent of over 25 crore voters today exercised their franchise in the final leg of the Lok Sabha elections with two of the three exit polls giving a slender majority to NDA. Key constituencies
New Delhi, May 10: An estimated 50 to 55 per cent of over 25 crore voters today exercised their franchise in the final leg of the Lok Sabha elections with two of the three exit polls giving a slender majority to NDA.
The polling in the fourth and final phase covered remaining 182 of the 543 seats across 16 states and Union Territories amidst sporadic violence which claimed four lives and injured several others.
Counting of votes for all the 543 Lok Sabha seats for which elections began on April 20 would be taken up on Thursday and the results are expected the same day. Exit polls have predicted a hung house. Simultaneously assembly elections were held in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa and Sikkim.
However, in view of the need to immediately constitute the new Andhra Pradesh Assembly, which has 294 members, the counting of votes in the state will be taken up tomorrow.
Among the 12 states, West Bengal, where 42 seats are up for grab, registered the highest turnout of 65 to 70 percent. The highest turnout was registered in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep (72 percent), EC spokesman A N Jha told reporters here.
The lowest voting among the states was in Madhya Pradesh (42 to 45) and Jammu and Kashmir (44 percent), he said.
The lowest turnout among union territories was in Chandigarh (50 to 55 percent).
West Bengal was followed by Haryana (60-65 per cent turnout), Himachal Pradesh (60 per cent), Punjab (55 to 60 per cent), Tamil Nadu (55 to 60 per cent), Uttaranchal (55 to 60 per cent), Kerala (55 to 58 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (50 per cent).
Delhi recorded a turnout of 50 per cent while Silchar constituency in Assam, where former Union Ministers Santosh Mohan Deb of Congress and Kabindra Purakayastha of BJP are locked in a fight, registered 60 per cent turnout.
Bureau Report
The polling in the fourth and final phase covered remaining 182 of the 543 seats across 16 states and Union Territories amidst sporadic violence which claimed four lives and injured several others.
Counting of votes for all the 543 Lok Sabha seats for which elections began on April 20 would be taken up on Thursday and the results are expected the same day. Exit polls have predicted a hung house. Simultaneously assembly elections were held in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa and Sikkim.
However, in view of the need to immediately constitute the new Andhra Pradesh Assembly, which has 294 members, the counting of votes in the state will be taken up tomorrow.
Among the 12 states, West Bengal, where 42 seats are up for grab, registered the highest turnout of 65 to 70 percent. The highest turnout was registered in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep (72 percent), EC spokesman A N Jha told reporters here.
The lowest voting among the states was in Madhya Pradesh (42 to 45) and Jammu and Kashmir (44 percent), he said.
The lowest turnout among union territories was in Chandigarh (50 to 55 percent).
West Bengal was followed by Haryana (60-65 per cent turnout), Himachal Pradesh (60 per cent), Punjab (55 to 60 per cent), Tamil Nadu (55 to 60 per cent), Uttaranchal (55 to 60 per cent), Kerala (55 to 58 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (50 per cent).
Delhi recorded a turnout of 50 per cent while Silchar constituency in Assam, where former Union Ministers Santosh Mohan Deb of Congress and Kabindra Purakayastha of BJP are locked in a fight, registered 60 per cent turnout.
Bureau Report