54.18 per cent voting recorded until 5 pm in Uttar Pradesh polls

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Over 54 per cent voter turnout was recorded until 5 pm within the seventh and final section of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday.

Voting began at 7 am.

It ended at 4 pm in Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and the Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats, whereas in the remainder of the segments, it continued until 6 pm.

The districts the place polls are underway on this section are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.

The voting share until 5 pm was 54.18 per cent, in keeping with the Election Commission’s ‘Voter Turnout’ utility.

While Azamgarh witnessed 52.34 per cent voting, Bhadohi noticed 54.26 per cent, Chandauli 59.59 per cent, Ghazipur 53.67 per cent, Jaunpur 53.55 per cent, Mau 55.04 per cent, Mirzapur 54.93 per cent, Sonbhadra 56.95 per cent and Varanasi 52.79 per cent, it confirmed.

A complete of 613 candidates are within the fray for the 54 seats, together with these falling in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary phase Varanasi.

The destiny of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar and a number of other state ministers will probably be determined on this spherical, by which 2.06 crore individuals are eligible to vote.

Besides state Tourism Minister Neelkanth Tiwari, who’s contesting for the Varanasi South seat, different ministers within the fray within the final leg of the elections are Anil Rajbhar (Shivpur-Varanasi), Ravindra Jaiswal (Varanasi North), Girish Yadav (Jaunpur) and Ramashankar Singh Patel (Marihan-Mirzapur).

Dara Singh Chauhan, who had resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and joined the Samajwadi Party (SP), is contesting from the Ghosi seat in Mau.

Om Prakash Rajbhar (Zahoorabad), Dhananjay Singh (Malhani-Jaunpur) because the JD(U) candidate, and Abbas Ansari, the son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, from Mau Sadar seat, are contesting on this section.

Campaigning on this section reached its crescendo with Modi main the BJP’s ballot blitzkrieg in Varanasi and its adjoining districts.

The state has 403 Assembly seats and the outcomes of the elections will probably be declared on March 10.