At 8 pm, the voter turnout for the fourth session of the Lok Sabha elections was about 62.84 percent, covering 96 constituencies in 10 states and 1 Union territory, and West Bengal (8 seats) recorded, the Election Commission says 75.94 %, and the lowest is 36.58% in Jammu and Kashmir (1 seat). However, the turnout in the J&K Srinagar constituency, the first since the abrogation of Article 370, was the highest since 1996 when the voter turnout was recorded at 40.94 percent. . The weather was fine and nothing like a heat wave, which led to a strong response from young and old voters.
Madhya Pradesh went to polls in the last phase of the state with eight seats going to polls with a voter turnout of 68.63 percent, while Andhra Pradesh went to polls for 25 constituencies and 175 assembly seats in the state with a record voter turnout. of 68.12 percent. increased as polling continued in some booths till 9 pm. In other states, Odisha (4 seats) at 63.85%, Jharkhand (4 seats) at 63.37%, Telangana (total 17 seats) at 61.39%, Uttar Pradesh (13 seats) at 57.88%, Bihar (5 seats) ) to 55.90% and Maharashtra (11 seats) 52.75%. Voting has resumed for the Odisha Assembly elections for 28 of the 147 seats in the first of the state’s four divisions. There were several incidents of violence, including an incident in which a YSRCP MLA allegedly slapped a voter who was paying the MP, and an altercation between YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) supporters. and the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) influenced the election in many places.
West Bengal also reported election-related violence, including BJP candidate Dilip Ghosh who was attacked from Bardhaman-Durgapur in Karna, East Burdwan district. 177 million voters (8.97 billion men and 8.73 billion women) have the right to decide the outcome of the election of 1,717 candidates in the fourth term. Union Ministers Arjun Munda (Khunti-ST, Jharkhand), Nityanand Rai (Ujjalpur, Bihar) and Leader of the Opposition Ajay Mishra Teni (Khairy, Uttar Pradesh), former Pakistani West Bengal cricketer Yusuf Pathan (Trinamool Congress) in Harrampur. , and movie star-turned-politician Shatrughan Singh (Trinamool) in Asansol, West Bengal. Other key battlegrounds include Hyderabad, which is witnessing a big fight between BJP’s Madhavi Lata and AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi; Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav challenged current BJP MP Subrat Pathak.
In Beed, Maharashtra, BJP’s Pankaja Munde replaced MP and sister Pritam Munde with NCP-SP candidate Bajrang Sonawane, Andhra Pradesh Congress president Y.S. Sharmila is fighting cousin and MP Avinash Reddy in Kadapa, Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, while veteran tribal leader and former Union minister Kantilal Briya (Congress Party) is fighting against Anita Chauhan, wife of state minister Nagar Singh Chauhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party. . So far, elections have been held to elect 379 MLAs, as have elections in 23 states/Union States, including all of South India and Madhya Pradesh.