Lok Sabha elections: Third phase of polling begins in 93 constituencies
BJP’s Amit Shah, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh are prominent candidates in fray.
The third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections began on Tuesday, with 93 parliamentary constituencies in 11 states and four Union territories going to polls.
As the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate won from the Surat seat unopposed, voting is underway in 25 of the 26 seats of Gujarat, 11 seats in Maharashtra, 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 14 seats in Karnataka, nine seats in Madhya Pradesh, seven in Chhattisgarh, five in Bihar, four each in Assam and West Bengal and both the seats in Goa. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu also went to polls on Tuesday.
As of 9 am, the voter turnout in Goa was 13.02%, 9.87% in Gujarat, 9.45% in Karnataka, 14.43% in Madhya Pradesh, 6.64% in Maharashtra, 12.94% in Uttar Pradesh and 15.85% in West Bengal, according to data released by the Election Commission.
The turnout in Assam was 10.12%, 10.41% in Bihar and 13.24% in Chhattisgarh. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu had recorded a voter turnout of 10.13%.
In Surat, BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal was declared the winner on April 22 after the Congress’ Nilesh Kumbhani was disqualified by the polling officer and other candidates withdrew their nominations.
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