Elections 2019: 66 per cent polling in Himachal Pradesh till 5 pm

ShimlaThe four Lok Sabha seats of Himachal Pradesh witnessed a turnout of 6635 per cent till 5 pm on Sunday officials saidThe voting turnout has already crossed the 2014 general elections polling percentage of 6445 per cent in the stateInterestingly 132 per cent turnout has been recorded in the worlds highest polling station in Tashigang village of Himachal Pradeshs tribal Lahaul and Spiti district a district official saidOver 43 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 3 pm on Sunday in polling for 59 seats in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections with Jharkhand recording the highest turnout of 5588 per centThere were reports of people ransacking a polling booth and holding an official hostage in Bihar as well as sporadic violence in West Bengal The state recorded a high poll percentage of 5190 per cent till 3 pmPolling is taking place in the remaining eight constituencies in Bihar three constituencies in Jharkhand eight in Madhya Pradesh 13 in Uttar Pradesh nine in West Bengal and all the four constituencies in Himachal Pradesh 13 in Punjab and the lone seat of Union Territory ChandigarhAccording to the Election Commission EC data at 3 pm Punjab registered 4148 per cent voting Bihar 3657 per cent Himachal Pradesh 4562 per cent Madhya Pradesh 4688 per cent and Chandigarh 3750 per cent voting The overall voting percentage was 4346 per cent for the seven states and ChandigarhOver 101 crore voters are deciding the fate of 918 candidates including Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last phase of polling todayVoting began at over 112 lakh polling stations across the seven states and a Union Territory at 7 am5195 voter turnout recorded till 3 pm Bihar4666 Himachal Pradesh 4943 Madhya Pradesh5727 Punjab4818 Uttar Pradesh4607 West Bengal 6358 Jharkhand6481 Chandigarh5024 in Phase7 of LokSabhaElections2019 pictwittercom8zRIdDYmRVmdash ANI ANI May 19 2019A voter turnout of 4666 per cent was recorded till 3 pm on Sunday in eight parliamentary constituencies across the state of BiharAccording to the Election Commission of India of the eight Lok Sabha seats voting percentage was the highest in Buxar 4831 per cent followed by Karakat 4826 per cent Jahanabad 4803 per cent Arrah 4765 per cent Pataliputra 4751 per cent Nalanda 4734 per cent SasaramSC 4723 per cent and Patna Sahib 4007 per centAccording to election officials angry voters ransacked the polling booth in Nalanda in Bihar and held the Block Development Officer hostage The officer was freed after police intervention No voting took place at the boothGlitches in Electronic Voting Machines were also reported from the eight constituencies leading to delay in the poll process in a few boothsChief Minister Nitish Kumar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and former Chief Ministers Jitan Ram Manjhi and Rabri Devi voted in PatnaOther prominent faces who voted in the state capital include Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Congress candidate from Patna Sahib Shatrughan Sinha and RJD supremo Lalu Prasads daughter Misa BhartiSinha was accompanied by his wife Poonam and his two sons Luv and KushWest Bengal reported a few incidents of sporadic violence and reports of EVM failures in several booths leading to either delay or stalling of the poll processLong queues of voters were seen outside polling booths in Dum Dum Barasat Basirhat Jaynagar Mathurapur Diamond Harbour Jadavpur Kolkata South and Kolkata North constituenciesEVM failure has been reported from across constituencies and requisite actions are being taken said the Election Commission officialAnupam Hazra the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP candidate from West Bengals Jadavpur seat and a party leader accompanying him were attacked and the latters car damaged after the two visited a booth on receiving reports of riggingDhar People of Bhil tribe in Dhal village turn out in large numbers to vote for LokSabhaElections2019 say we have come to vote as we have to select a government We have a lot of issues like road water employment We are voting for development MadhyaPradesh pictwittercommwUFrxHZSlmdash ANI ANI May 19 2019Hazra alleged that he was pushed and shoved and accused the TMC of rigging all 52 polling booths under the Kolkata Municipal Corporation ward number 109 in JadavpurThe BJP Mandal President was hit and one of his tooth was broken A CISF officer posted at the booth was also injured in the attack by the Trinamool Hazra told the mediaThe Trinamool however denied the allegationsModi is recontesting from Varanasi seat in Uttar Pradesh Besides Modi 25 other candidates are in fray from Varanasi Modis main challengers are Congress Ajay Rai and SPBSPs joint candidate Shalini YadavIn Himachal Pradesh women turned out in large numbers in the rural areas of the Hamirpur and Kangra parliamentary constituenciesThere were minor hiccups as electronic voting machines developed snags at some placesChief Minister Jai Ram Thakur twotime former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and former Union 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