36.33 pc votes polled till 1 pm in UP.

Lucknow, March 3 : An estimated 36.33 per cent of the 2.15 crore electorate had voted till 1 pm on Thursday in the sixth and penultimate phase of the staggered Uttar Pradesh assembly elections spread across 57 constituencies in 10 districts. According to the Chief Electoral Officer, the maximum of 40.60 per cent votes were polled in Ambedkar Nagar district whiles Balrampur saw a voter turnout of 29.89 per cent. Among other districts, 36.39 per cent voted in Ballia, 37.48 per cent in Basti, 34.95 per cent in Deoria, 36.63 per cent in Gorakhpur, 39.36 per cent in Kushinagar, 35.32 per cent in Maharajganj, 34.42 per cent in Sant Kabir Nagar and 36.51 per cent in Siddharth Nagar. Additional Chief Electoral Officer B D R Tiwari said there were initially complaints related to electronic voting machines but they were fixed on time. “Polling continues peacefully,” he said. AB MR

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