Lok Sabha Polls Part 6: A voter turnout of 58.93 per cent was recorded by 3 pm on Saturday in 58 constituencies throughout six states and two Union territories in the course of the sixth part of the Lok Sabha elections. The Election Fee of India (ECI) had made intensive preparations to handle the opposed influence of the continued heatwave, together with provisions for chilly water, coolers, followers, and tents at a number of polling stations. Wheelchairs had been additionally obtainable to help aged voters.
The EC reported that over 11.13 crore voters, comprising 5.84 crore males, 5.29 crore females, and 5,120 third-gender people, had been eligible to vote on this part. Roughly 11.4 lakh polling officers had been deployed throughout 1.14 lakh polling stations.
In West Bengal, the place voter turnout reached 78.19 per cent, sporadic incidents of violence had been reported. Voting happened within the Jangal Mahal area, a vital tribal belt spanning 5 districts. Jharkhand recorded a turnout of 62.66 per cent, Uttar Pradesh 54.02 per cent, Bihar 52.82 per cent, Jammu and Kashmir 51.97 per cent, Haryana 58.24 per cent, and Delhi 54.37 per cent, as per the figures up to date by the EC on its voter turnout app.
State/UT | Constituency | Constituency Turnout(%) | State/UT Turnout (%) |
Bihar | Valmiki Nagar | 54.09 | 52.82 |
Paschim Champaran | 55.22 | ||
Purvi Champaran | 55.78 | ||
Sheohar | 54.37 | ||
Gopalganj | 46.77 | ||
Siwan | 47.49 | ||
Maharajganj | 49.15 | ||
Vaishali | 56.11 | ||
Jammu & Kashmir | Anantnag | 51.41 | 51.97 |
Delhi | Chandni Chowk | 53.27 | 54.37 |
North East Delhi | 58.3 | ||
East Delhi | 54.34 | ||
New Delhi | 51.05 | ||
North West Delhi | 53.81 | ||
West Delhi | 54.89 | ||
South Delhi | 52.83 | ||
Haryana | Ambala | 60.46 | 58.24 |
Bhiwani-Mahendragarh | 57.11 | ||
Faridabad | 55.07 | ||
Gurgaon | 53.24 | ||
Hisar | 60.96 | ||
Karnal | 59.49 | ||
Kurukshetra | 61.31 | ||
Rohtak | 58.48 | ||
Sirsa | 60.27 | ||
Sonipat | 56.58 | ||
Odisha | Bhubaneswar | 53.54 | 59.92 |
Cuttack | 54.36 | ||
Dhenkanal | 60.88 | ||
Keonjhar | 62.43 | ||
Puri | 61.17 | ||
Sambalpur | 66.67 | ||
Uttar Pradesh | Allahabad | 51.75 | 54.02 |
Ambedkar Nagar | 61.54 | ||
Azamgarh | 56.09 | ||
Basti | 56.66 | ||
Bhadohi | 53.03 | ||
Domariyaganj | 51.94 | ||
Jaunpur | 55.52 | ||
Lalganj | 54.39 | ||
Machhlishahr | 54.43 | ||
Phulpur | 48.94 | ||
Pratapgarh | 51.6 | ||
Sant Kabir Nagar | 52.64 | ||
Shrawasti | 52.76 | ||
Sultanpur | 55.61 | ||
West Bengal | Bankura | 76.79 | 78.19 |
Bishnupur | 81.47 | ||
Ghatal | 79.61 | ||
Jhargram | 80.16 | ||
Kanthi | 75.66 | ||
Medinipur | 77.6 | ||
Purulia | 74.43 | ||
Tamluk | 79.79 | ||
Jharkhand | Dhanbad | 58.9 | 62.66 |
Giridih | 66.14 | ||
Jamshedpur | 66.79 | ||
Ranchi | 59.09 |
BJP Candidate’s Convoy Attacked in West Midnapore
Senior BJP chief and Jhargram candidate, Pranat Tudu, reported an assault on his convoy on Saturday within the Garbeta space of West Midnapore district. Tudu claimed that the incident occurred whereas he was en path to Garbeta following complaints of BJP brokers being barred from some polling cubicles.
#WATCH | West Bengal | BJP candidate from Jhargram Lok Sabha seat, Pranat Tudu was attacked allegedly by miscreants when he was visiting sales space quantity 200 in Monglapota within the parliamentary constituency at present pic.twitter.com/bfEYH7KgXT
— ANI (@ANI) May 25, 2024
Tudu recounted, “Unexpectedly, TMC goons who had blocked the roads began hurling bricks at my automotive. When my safety personnel tried to intervene, they had been injured. Two CISF jawans accompanying me acquired head accidents and needed to be hospitalised”, as quoted by information company PTI.
In response to the state of affairs, a big police contingent was dispatched to the realm to revive order.
Nevertheless, the native TMC management denied the allegations, accusing Tudu of making an attempt to disrupt the peaceable polling course of. “The BJP nominee was threatening voters. The villagers bought enraged and staged a protest,” a neighborhood TMC chief asserted, as per PTI.
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Part 6: Mehbooba Mufti Protests In Anantnag, Delhi Undergoes Polling
In Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, contesting from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat, staged a sit-in outdoors Bijbehara police station. She protested towards the alleged detention of her occasion employees and polling brokers. Mufti additionally claimed that outgoing calls on her cellular quantity had been suspended. The police countered, stating, “These detained are overground employees (OGWs) and the motion was taken to make sure clean conduct of elections”, as quoted by PTI.
Within the nationwide capital, distinguished figures akin to President Droupadi Murmu, Union ministers S Jaishankar and Hardeep Singh Puri, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi minister Atishi, and Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had been amongst those that solid their votes. CPI(M) chief Brinda Karat alleged she needed to wait nearly an hour to vote resulting from a drained battery within the EVM management unit at her polling sales space. The District Election Officer stated, “The battery was changed inside quarter-hour”, as per PTI.
Concurrently, polling was performed for 42 meeting constituencies in Odisha and the Karnal meeting bypoll in Haryana. In Haryana, BJP’s Karnal Lok Sabha candidate Manohar Lal Khattar and Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini had been among the many early voters. Saini solid his vote in his native Mirjapur Majra village, Ambala district, whereas Khattar voted in Karnal’s Prem Nagar.
In Uttar Pradesh, polling happened in 14 constituencies, together with Sultanpur, Phulpur, and Allahabad.
In Bihar, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary appealed to voters in a video message on X to “vote for a developed India.” Polling occurred in eight seats, together with Valmiki Nagar and Vaishali.
Odisha’s Chief Electoral Officer, N B Dhal, reported clean voting throughout the state’s six parliamentary constituencies, regardless of some EVM glitches. The ultimate part of polling is scheduled for June 1, with the counting of votes set for June 4.