Assembly elections 2018: Telangana registers 49% voter turnout, Rajasthan 41% till 1pm
Rajasthan polling
The voter turnout for the assembly elections till 1 pm was recorded as 49.15per centin Telanganaand 41.53per cent in Rajasthan.
The turnout till 11 am was23.4 per cent in Telangana and 21.89 per cent in Rajasthan.
While nearly 9 per centvoters had cast their votes in Telangana by 9 am and6.11 per cent in Rajasthan.
Telangana andRajasthan are undergoing elections today to elect theirlegislative assembly members.
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While the polling in Telangana started at 7 am, voting in Rajasthan began at 8 am.
The polling in Telangana will end at 5 pmwhile in 13 constituencies classified as Left Wing Extremist-affected, polling ends an hour before at 4 pm.
Election Commission is using Voters Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in Telangana for the first time.
Telangana leaders Kadiyam Srihari, Harihs Rao, Pocharama Srinivas Reddy, Jupally Krishna Rao and Jagadish Reddy were among those who cast their vote.
Former Union Minister Chiranjeevi and cine actors Nagarjuna cast their vote in Jubilee Hills in the city.
Legislative Assembly elections are being held for the first time in Telangana after its formation as the 2014 Assembly polls were held in undivided Andhra Pradesh.
In Rajasthan 199 out of 200 assembly seats are contesting for the legislative assembly. Polling has been cancelled inAlwar district’s Ramgarh constituency following the death of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Laxman Singh.
A total of 2, 274 candidates in the fray in Rajasthan. As many as 4,74,79,402 people are eligible tocast their vote at 51,667 polling stations across the state.
With 32,815 polling stations across Telangana, around 1,821 candidates including a transgender are in the fray in the election.
The Congress-led alliance is challenging the ruling TRS in Telangana with the BJP seeking to make it a triangular contest. In Rajasthan, BJP will try to retain itspower in the state assembly.
Counting of votes will take place onDecember 11.
(With inputs from agencies)