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Moderate to high turnout in second phase polls

| | Apr 10, 2014, at 01:00 am
Itanagar, Apr 9 (IBNS) The North-Eastern (NE) states of Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Manipur witnessed moderate to heavy turnout on Wednesday with Nagaland recording as high as 84.43 percent voter turnout in the second phase of the general elections in India.
According to officials, Manipur recorded 76.35 percent electorate turnout.
 
While the state of Arunachal Pradesh witnessed about 70 percent voter turnout, around 60 percent of electorates exercised their voting rights in Meghalaya till 4 PM.
 
The polling was held peacefully with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere in the NE states.
 
In the second phase of the nine-phase 2014 Lok Sabha elections, polling was on Wednesday held in six constituencies of the four NE states.
 
In Arunachal, 7,53,170 voters, including 3,77,272 women, were eligible to cast their votes in 2,158 polling stations to decide the fate of 155 candidates contesting over two seats in the state.
 
In Meghalaya, 15,53,028 voters, including 7,83,270 women, were eligible to cast their ballots for two Lok Sabha seats.
 
In Nagaland, 11,82,948 voters, including 5,82,458 women, were eligible to vote to elect their representative for the lone parliamentary seat in the state.
 
In Manipur,  9,11,699 voters, including 4,63,068 are women,  had the right to cast their votes across 511 polling booths to elect its representative for one of the two parliamentary constituencies in the state.
 
Polling for the second seat - Inner Manipur constituency (valley districts) - will be held on Apr 17.
 
In the first phase, voting was held in six constituencies of Assam and Tripura on Monday.
 
Counting will be held on May 16. 
 

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