UP Polls: Polling Underway for 6th Phase, 9 percent Voter Turnout till 9 am
GG News Bureau
Lucknow, 3rd March. About 9 percent voter turnout was recorded in the first two hours for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on Thursday.
The prominent faces among the 676 candidates battling on 57 seats spread across 10 districts in the 6th phase include Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj.
The polling started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
Around 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote in the 6th phase of UP Polls.
So far, voting for 292 of the 403 Assembly seats has been completed. The final phase of the polls on the remaining 54 seats will be held on March 7.
The districts where polling is being held on Thursday are Ambedkarnagar, Balrampur, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia.
In the first two hours till 9 am there was an average of 8.69 percent polling, according to the Election Commission of India’s Turnout app.
While Ambedkarnagar had 9.54 per cent voting, Ballia had 7.59 per cent, Balrampur 8.10 per cent, Basti 9.83 per cent, Deoria 8.44 per cent, Gorakhpur 8.92 per cent, Kushinagar 9.69 per cent, Mahrajganj 8.9 per cent, Sant Kabir Nagar 6.76 per cent and Siddharth Nagar 8.24 per cent.
Among those who cast their votes in the morning included Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi, Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chowdhury, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, minister Upendra Tiwari and former minister Narad Rai.
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