Over 74 pc polling in Assam’s four assembly seats, 90.74 pc in Arunachal, 79.83 pc in Meghalaya
Guwahati/IBNS: At least 74.15 percent voter turnout has been recorded till 5 pm across the four assembly constituencies in Assam that went to bye-election on Monday.
Chief Electoral Officer of Assam Mukesh Sahu said that, 74.15 percent polling was recorded till 5 pm and the polling percentage is likely to be increased.
The bye-election was held in Ratabari, Rangapara, Sonari and Jania assembly constituencies.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), 74.37% voter turnout has been recorded in Ratabari seat while, 77.50% in Rangapara, 66.40% in Sonari and 78.21% in Jania seat.
Polling started at around 7 am in all the 830 polling stations of the four assembly constituencies.
A total of 20 candidates are in fray in four assembly seats and a total 6,78,898 voters went to cast their votes to elect their legislators.
In last assembly election in Assam, BJP won Ratabari, Sonari and Rangapara seats while Congress won the Jania seat.
Bye-election was necessitated as Kripanath Mallah (Ratabari), Tapan Gogoi (Sonari) and Pallab Lochan Das (Rangapara) of BJP and Congress MLA of Jania Abdul Kalaque won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
On the other hand, 90.74% voter turnout has been recorded till 5 pm in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Khonsa seat and 79.83% in Meghalaya’s Shella seat.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
