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Uttar Pradesh records over 37 per cent voting by one pm

| | Mar 04, 2017, at 08:16 pm
Lucknow, Mar 4 (IBNS): Uttar Pradesh recorded 37.85 per cent voting till one pm on Saturday in the sixth and penultimate round of the Assembly Elections, according to media reports.

Until 11am, 23 per cent voting was recorded.

The districts where polling is going on in the sixth phase are Mau, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Deoria, Azamgarh and Ballia.

The Assembly segments of Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency, represented by firebrand BJP leader Yogi Adityanath, and Mau, where jailed gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari is in fray, figure in this phase of UP polling.

Around 1.72 crore voters, including 94.60 lakh men and 77.84 lakh women, are eligible to cast their votes in this round to decide the fate of 635 candidates, including 63 women.

Manipur is also holding its first of the two-phase Assembly Election on Saturday.


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