Historic Turnout! Madhya Pradesh shatters voting record with THIS MUCH turnout

NewsBharati    18-Nov-2023 12:21:04 PM
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Bhopal, Nov 18: In a huge development, a voter turnout of nearly 76 percent was recorded in assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh on Friday. Notably, this voting figure surpassed the 75 percent recorded in 2018 and could increase further. Polling was held for all 230 constituencies in a single phase on Friday.
 
Madhya Pradesh elections voting turnout
 
 
“Voting was approximately 76 percent. We are waiting for some details before coming out with the final figure which will take some time,” the state’s Chief Electoral Officer Anupam Rajan was quoted as saying to PTI late at night.
 
The polling was marred by violence in a few places. An aide of a Congress candidate was killed after two groups clashed in Rajnagar, police said. Voting in naxalite-affected Balaghat, Mandla and Dindori districts ended at 3 PM while it continued till 6 PM in other parts of the state. Polling had begun at 7 AM across all 230 constituencies.
 
 
 
 
In 2018, 75.63 per cent voters had cast their ballots. The EC said that till 5pm Friday, a total of 71.19 per cent men and 71.14 per cent women cast their votes.
 
The fates of 2,533 candidates, including chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the BJP and his predecessor and state Congress chief Kamal Nath, were sealed in Electronic Voting Machines.
 
Prominent among those who voted early in the day included Chouhan and his family, Nath along with his family, Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Prahlad Patel, state BJP president V D Sharma and BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.
 
 
Women were seen standing in queues in large numbers at various polling booths in the state including Hoshangabad.
 
A total of 64,626 polling stations were set up in the state.
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