According to the Election Commission (EC), 55.60 percent voting was recorded in the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha elections in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.
Voting ended at 6 pm, sealing the fate of 144 candidates in 13 constituencies in the state, including Varanasi, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting the Lok Sabha election for the third consecutive time.
Election officials said the voter turnout figure may increase as the data is being compiled. Apart from Varanasi, other seats where voting took place included Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon (SC), Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Consists of Ghazipur, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Robertsganj (SC).
State Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa told reporters on Saturday evening that the seventh phase of voting was completed peacefully. He said that the final figures of voting for 13 seats will be released on Sunday.Rinwa also announced that the families of polling personnel and home guards who died due to heat while on duty on Friday evening will be given Rs 15 lakh each as per the instructions of the Election Commission. On Friday, officials had said that due to the scorching heat, Thirteen election workers posted in Mirzapur district died due to high fever and high blood pressure. Twenty-three other people are admitted to a hospital in Mirzapur. They said.
Three more people on election duty in Sonbhadra district also died and eight fell ill due to the heat, a senior official said.
On the 13 deaths, Mirzapur Government Medical College Principal Dr Raj Bahadur Kamal said there were seven home guards, three sanitation workers, a clerk posted in the office of the Chief Medical Officer, a consolidation officer and a peon.Team Died.According to the Election Commission, the compiled voting percentage data is as follows - Ballia 51.84, Bansgaon 51.59, Chandauli 60.34, Deoria 55.30, Ghazipur 54.87, Gorakhpur 54.69, Maharajganj 60.08, Mirzapur 57.72, Robertsganj 55. .92, Salempur 51.25 and Varanasi 56.35.
Uttar Pradesh sends the highest number of 80 members to the lower house of Parliament among all states and union territories.
By-election was also held on Saturday on Duddhi (reserved for Scheduled Tribe) assembly seat in Sonbhadra district. Voting percentage in Duddhi was 55.79. Six candidates contested from Duddhi seat, which fell vacant after BJP MLA Ram Dular was disqualified following his conviction in a rape case.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath exercised his franchise in Gorakhpur, while Union Minister Anupriya Patel, candidate from Mirzapur, cast her vote in Mirzapur.Before this, Yogi Adityanath had represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha five times. Union ministers Mahendra Nath Pandey, Pankaj Choudhary and Patel contested from Chandauli, Maharajganj and Mirzapur respectively. Afzal Ansari, brother of late mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was in the fray from Ghazipur and Neeraj Shekhar, son of former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar was in the fray from Ballia. Were.
According to the EC, voting ended at 6 pm in all Lok Sabha seats except Robertsganj in the seventh phase. Voting in Robertsganj (SC) Lok Sabha seat and Duddhi Assembly constituency ended at 4 pm.
A 70-year-old man collapsed and died at a polling booth in a primary school in Chak Bahuddin village in Ballia, an official said.While Sikanderpur sub-divisional magistrate Ravi Kumar said that Rambachan Chauhan fell ill before joining the queue of voters at the booth, local residents claimed that he felt dizzy while standing in the queue and fainted.
In Ballia's Math Dhajju Giri village, voters boycotted voting demanding road connectivity and electricity supply. Local police station in-charge Dharamveer Singh said that there are about 900 voters in the village.
Many voters in Rasoolpur village of Ballia boycotted the Lok Sabha elections and raised the demand for an underpass, saying that in its absence they were facing great difficulties. Rasra Sub-Collector Alok Pratap Singh said that due to the efforts of Cabinet Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar, Despite this, most of the people of the village remained adamant on boycotting the elections. He told that there are 1,098 voters in the village, but till the last information, about 42 voters have cast their vote at this polling station.
In a series of posts tagging the Election Commission on 'X', the Samajwadi Party alleged slow voting at a booth under Chandauli Lok Sabha constituency and the presiding officer and BJP booth agents at a booth in Bairia in Ballia Lok Sabha constituency. Accused of rigging. ,
The party also alleged that CCTV cameras at booths 430 and 431 in Chhanbe assembly constituency under Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency were switched off by the administration.One sapling was given to the voters at the polling booth set up in the primary school of Nagar Panchayat Chowk in Maharajganj district.
Uttar Pradesh saw a direct contest between the BJP-led NDA and India Bloc members Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress.
State Chief Electoral Officer Rinwa said there are 2,50,56,877 voters in the 13 Lok Sabha seats in this phase, including 1,17,44,922 women and 1,058 voters of the third gender.
Voting ended at 6 pm, sealing the fate of 144 candidates in 13 constituencies in the state, including Varanasi, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting the Lok Sabha election for the third consecutive time.
Election officials said the voter turnout figure may increase as the data is being compiled. Apart from Varanasi, other seats where voting took place included Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon (SC), Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Consists of Ghazipur, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Robertsganj (SC).
State Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa told reporters on Saturday evening that the seventh phase of voting was completed peacefully. He said that the final figures of voting for 13 seats will be released on Sunday.Rinwa also announced that the families of polling personnel and home guards who died due to heat while on duty on Friday evening will be given Rs 15 lakh each as per the instructions of the Election Commission. On Friday, officials had said that due to the scorching heat, Thirteen election workers posted in Mirzapur district died due to high fever and high blood pressure. Twenty-three other people are admitted to a hospital in Mirzapur. They said.
Three more people on election duty in Sonbhadra district also died and eight fell ill due to the heat, a senior official said.
On the 13 deaths, Mirzapur Government Medical College Principal Dr Raj Bahadur Kamal said there were seven home guards, three sanitation workers, a clerk posted in the office of the Chief Medical Officer, a consolidation officer and a peon.Team Died.According to the Election Commission, the compiled voting percentage data is as follows - Ballia 51.84, Bansgaon 51.59, Chandauli 60.34, Deoria 55.30, Ghazipur 54.87, Gorakhpur 54.69, Maharajganj 60.08, Mirzapur 57.72, Robertsganj 55. .92, Salempur 51.25 and Varanasi 56.35.
Uttar Pradesh sends the highest number of 80 members to the lower house of Parliament among all states and union territories.
By-election was also held on Saturday on Duddhi (reserved for Scheduled Tribe) assembly seat in Sonbhadra district. Voting percentage in Duddhi was 55.79. Six candidates contested from Duddhi seat, which fell vacant after BJP MLA Ram Dular was disqualified following his conviction in a rape case.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath exercised his franchise in Gorakhpur, while Union Minister Anupriya Patel, candidate from Mirzapur, cast her vote in Mirzapur.Before this, Yogi Adityanath had represented Gorakhpur in the Lok Sabha five times. Union ministers Mahendra Nath Pandey, Pankaj Choudhary and Patel contested from Chandauli, Maharajganj and Mirzapur respectively. Afzal Ansari, brother of late mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was in the fray from Ghazipur and Neeraj Shekhar, son of former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar was in the fray from Ballia. Were.
According to the EC, voting ended at 6 pm in all Lok Sabha seats except Robertsganj in the seventh phase. Voting in Robertsganj (SC) Lok Sabha seat and Duddhi Assembly constituency ended at 4 pm.
A 70-year-old man collapsed and died at a polling booth in a primary school in Chak Bahuddin village in Ballia, an official said.While Sikanderpur sub-divisional magistrate Ravi Kumar said that Rambachan Chauhan fell ill before joining the queue of voters at the booth, local residents claimed that he felt dizzy while standing in the queue and fainted.
In Ballia's Math Dhajju Giri village, voters boycotted voting demanding road connectivity and electricity supply. Local police station in-charge Dharamveer Singh said that there are about 900 voters in the village.
Many voters in Rasoolpur village of Ballia boycotted the Lok Sabha elections and raised the demand for an underpass, saying that in its absence they were facing great difficulties. Rasra Sub-Collector Alok Pratap Singh said that due to the efforts of Cabinet Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar, Despite this, most of the people of the village remained adamant on boycotting the elections. He told that there are 1,098 voters in the village, but till the last information, about 42 voters have cast their vote at this polling station.
In a series of posts tagging the Election Commission on 'X', the Samajwadi Party alleged slow voting at a booth under Chandauli Lok Sabha constituency and the presiding officer and BJP booth agents at a booth in Bairia in Ballia Lok Sabha constituency. Accused of rigging. ,
The party also alleged that CCTV cameras at booths 430 and 431 in Chhanbe assembly constituency under Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency were switched off by the administration.One sapling was given to the voters at the polling booth set up in the primary school of Nagar Panchayat Chowk in Maharajganj district.
Uttar Pradesh saw a direct contest between the BJP-led NDA and India Bloc members Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress.
State Chief Electoral Officer Rinwa said there are 2,50,56,877 voters in the 13 Lok Sabha seats in this phase, including 1,17,44,922 women and 1,058 voters of the third gender.
