In the by-election held on Wednesday at Rupauli Assembly seat in Patna, Bihar, 39.36 percent voting took place till 1 pm. An officer gave this information.
Voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
More than three lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 11 candidates.
The by-election was necessitated after the resignation of sitting MLA Bima Bharti, who had previously won the seat for JD(U) several times but left the party to contest the Lok Sabha elections on an RJD ticket. After his defeat in the parliamentary elections, he contested the by-election as an RJD candidate.
JDU has fielded Kaladhar Prasad Mandal, who had contested the 2020 assembly elections as an independent from this seat.
Former MLA Shankar Singh, who left Union Minister Chirag Paswan's party LJP (Ram Vilas), is also contesting as an independent.
Voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
More than three lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 11 candidates.
The by-election was necessitated after the resignation of sitting MLA Bima Bharti, who had previously won the seat for JD(U) several times but left the party to contest the Lok Sabha elections on an RJD ticket. After his defeat in the parliamentary elections, he contested the by-election as an RJD candidate.
JDU has fielded Kaladhar Prasad Mandal, who had contested the 2020 assembly elections as an independent from this seat.
Former MLA Shankar Singh, who left Union Minister Chirag Paswan's party LJP (Ram Vilas), is also contesting as an independent.
