Second Phase of Lok Sabha Election: Highest Polling in Tripura – Lowest Polling in UP Achi-News

New Delhi (A.27): A reported 63.50 percent voter turnout in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections involving 12 states and 88 seats in the union territories held on Friday ie April 26. The Election Commission (EC) said that the vote held peacefully on all sides.

The provisional voter turnout was 63.50 per cent by 8 pm and is expected to increase as the reports from all the polling booths are received. People arriving at polling stations were allowed to cast their votes until the end of the voting period.

Initially, voters boycotted polling in some villages in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura, Rajasthan’s Banswara and Maharashtra’s Parbhani. But later the election officials convinced the voters about the importance of voting.

The second phase of voting started at 7am and ended at 6pm. The first phase of polling was held on April 19 in 102 constituencies across 21 states and union territories. The temperature has increased in several states. People are waiting for rain.

Voting was held in all 20 constituencies of Kerala, 14 of the 28 constituencies in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, 8 each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 6 in Madhya Pradesh, 5 each in Assam and Bihar respectively. Elections were held for 1 seat each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal and in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir.

Highlights of Phase 2 Elections:

By the time voting closed on Friday, turnout was around 63 per cent. Last week in the first phase, the voting was 65 percent. The number of voters in the second stage election is low. In the second phase in 2019, voting was 68 per cent.

According to Election Commission data, Tripura has the highest percentage. 79.46 percent voting. In Manipur 77.32 percent voting. 54.85% voting in Uttar Pradesh and 55.08% in Bihar. The turnout was reported to be over 100 per cent in two polling booths in the Tripura East (ST) constituency. Voting was conducted peacefully everywhere and ended. This is due to the use of Election Duty Certificates (EDCs), according to a statement by the Chief Electoral Officer of Tripura on Friday.

In Manipur, where there was a large number of security personnel, the turnout was significantly higher. at 77.32.

In Uttar Pradesh, the turnout in the 2019 elections for the same seats was 10%. The turnout was 62 percent. This time the voting percentage for the same seats was one percent. 7 percent less.

70.21% voting in Kerala. Kerala Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency has got 72.70 percent.

57.88 percent voting in Madhya Pradesh.

At present there are about 77,26,668 voters in the five parliamentary constituencies of Assam. 71.11 percent voted.

In the eight constituencies of Maharashtra, 57.83 percent voted, while in Rajasthan, 64.07 percent voted.

55.08 percent voting in Bihar and 71.91 percent voting in Jammu and Kashmir. 71.84 percent voting in West Bengal. The Election Commission has received about 300 complaints in West Bengal regarding EVM defects.

According to official statistics, in Gautam Buddha Nagar Constituency Uttar Pradesh, %. 53.30 percent voting. According to the Electoral Commission statistics, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 60.47 percent in 2014. 60.38 and in 2009 percent. The turnout was 48 percent. Half of the voters of Bangalore abstained from voting in this period of voting. In three urban constituencies in the city – Bangalore Central, Bangalore North and Bangalore South – voter participation has dropped significantly. 52.81% voting in Bangalore Central, 54.42% in Bangalore North, 53.15% in Bangalore South.

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