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Phase 3 of Lok Sabha elections ends with 64.66 voter turnout
Subodh Bhasin. Dated: 4/24/2019 9:27:59 AM
HERE IS THE
STATE-WISE VOTER
TURNOUT PERCENTAGE.
Total voter turnout for 3rd
phase of Lok Sabha Election
2019 is 64.66%
State-wise turnout:
Assam - 78.29%
Bihar - 60%%
Goa - 71.09%
Gujarat - 60.21%
Jammu & Kashmir - 13.63 %
Karnataka - 64.14%
Kerala - 70.28%
Maharashtra - 56.57%
Odisha - 58.18%
Tripura - 78.52%
Utar Pradesh - 60.52%
West Bengal - 79.36
Chhattisgarh - 65.91%
Dadra & Nagar Haveli -
71.43%
Daman & Diu - 65.34%
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SUBODH BHASIN Jammu, Apr 23 On Tuesday, India woke up to the biggest phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections as 117 seats went to polls. Third phase of the mammoth general elections recorded 64.66 per cent voting, the Election Commission said on Tuesday evening. As many as 117 constituencies across 13 states and two union territories voted on Tuesday amid reports of violence and EVM malfunctioning from some parts of the country. In the first phase (April 11), Bihar saw the lowest voter turnout with 50 per cent while West Bengal received the highest turnout with 81 per cent and in the second phase of polls, 68 per cent voter turnout was recorded In the third phase, the big names to watch out for in third phase are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Congress president Rahul Gandhi from Kerala's Wayanad, Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav from Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, Union minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar in Uttar Pradesh' Bareilly and BJP's Varun Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh' Pilibhit. Voters in 117 Lok Sabha seats spread across 15 states and Union Territories exercised their franchise on Tuesday in the third phase of Lok Sabha election. Over 18 crore 85 lakh voters, including 96598912 male, 86226460 female and 7043 third gender voters, locked the fate of nearly 1640 candidates in the third phase Voting was held in all 26 seats in Gujarat, 20 in Kerala, 2 in Goa, 1 each in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu in the third phase on Tuesday. Besides, polling was also held in 4 seats in Assam, 5 in Bihar, 7 in Chhattisgarh, 1 in Jammu and Kashmir, 14 in Karnataka, 14 in Maharashtra, six in Odisha, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, 5 in West Bengal and 1 in Tripura. There were reports of violence, hurling of crude bombs, intimidation and EVM failure in the state. A 52-year-old man claimed to be a Congress worker was hacked to death outside a booth during polling in Bengal's Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency. In the first two phases, election was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18 respectively. Election to 543 seats is being held in seven phases. The counting of votes will be on May 23.. In Phase one, the voter turnout was 69.50 per cent in the 91 seats while in phase two, the voter turnout was 69.44 per cent in 95 Lok Sabha seats.