The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections recorded a total voter turnout of 63.5 percent, on a day marred by poll-related violence in West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.
Two grenade attacks and a petrol bomb attack were reported from J&K’s Pulwama and Shopian districts respectively. However, there was no loss of life and no injuries were sustained in the attacks.
West Bengal, too, saw spates of violence with a BJP leader's car vandalised, journalists being attacked, along with cases of intimidation, bombings and EVM glitches.
Earlier in the day, Union Minister Smriti Irani had alleged booth-capturing in Amethi by Rahul Gandhi and asked the Election Commission to take cognisance.
- Polling was held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 12 in Rajasthan, seven seats each in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, five in Bihar, four in Jharkhand and two seats in Jammu and Kashmir
- Poll-related violence was reported in J&K’s Pulwama and West Bengal’s Barrackpore
- The BJP had bagged 12 of the 14 seats in UP in 2014; Sonia Gandhi won in Raebareli for Congress and Rahul won Amethi
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Lok Sabha Election 2019: 66.31% Voter Turnout in in MP
More than 66 percent voter turnout was recorded on Monday in the second phase of polling in Madhya Pradesh covering seven Lok Sabha seats with no untoward incident reported from anywhere, an Election Commission (EC) official said.
Polling was held in Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Rewa, Satna, Hoshangabad and Betul Lok Sabha constituencies in the second phase of elections - fifth round nationwide - in the state.
An average 66.31 percent voter turnout was recorded at the end of polling in these seven seats, the official said.
Lok Sabha Election 2019: Rajasthan Records 64% Voter Turnout
Rajasthan Chief Electoral Officer Anand Kumar said 63.78 percent voters turned out in the 12 Rajasthan constituencies which went to the polls in the second round, in which Union ministers Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Arjun Ram Meghwal are in the fray.
Overall, Rajasthan has recorded a turnout of 66 percent turnout at the end of its second and final round of polling, notching three percentage points higher than the voting in 2014.
Combined with the turnout in the earlier round on 29 April, for 13 seats, the overall voting percentage for the state's 25 seats is 66.12. In comparison, turnout for the entire state was 63.11 percent in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The figure for Monday's phase may be slightly revised in the final count, officials said.
Lok Sabha Election 2019: Overall Voter Turnout at 63.5%
A voter turnout of 63.5 percent was recorded in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, which is the lowest in all the phases so far, Election Commission data shows.
According to the Commission's Voter Turnout android application, at 9.00 PM, the turnout in the Monday's polling was 63.5 percent.
The voter turnout has recorded a decreasing trend so far this election.
