UP polls 815 per cent voter turnout till 9 am
Lucknow Feb 20 PTI An average 815 per cent voting was recorded in Uttar Pradesh till 9 am on Sunday The third phase of polling in 59 Assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm As per the data shared by the Election Commission the average polling percentage till 9 am was 762 per cent in Hathras 985 per cent in Firozabad 953 per cent in Kasganj 1016 per cent in Etah 1102 per cent in Mainpuri 588 per cent in Farrukhabad 1011 per cent in Kannauj 683 per cent in Etawah 774 per cent in Auraiya 618 per cent in Kanpur Dehat 566 per cent in Kanpur Nagar 953 per cent in Jalaun 769 per cent in Jhansi 936 per cent in Lalitpur 958 per cent in Hamirpur and 800 per cent in Mahoba As many as 627 candidates are in the fray in this phase in which over 215 crore people are eligible to vote The districts where polling is being held are Hathras Firozabad Etah Kasganj Mainpuri Farrukhabad Kannauj Etawah Auraiya Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur Hamirpur and Mahoba The Karhal assembly seat from where Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is contesting is also going to the polls in this phase The BJP has fielded Union minister S P Singh Baghel from the seat Sundays polling will also seal the fate of the Samajwadi Party chiefs uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav who is contesting from his traditional Jaswantnagar seat Before the campaigning ended for the third phase on Friday Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra undertook a door-to-door march in Kanpur Kalpi Jalaun and Hamirpur while BSP chief Mayawati addressed election meetings in Jalaun and Auraiya Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav sought votes for his son Akhilesh Yadav in Karhal The BJP had approached the Election Commission seeking deployment of paramilitary forces at all booths in Karhal Among other prominent faces in the fray in this phase are BJPs Satish Mahana Maharajpur in Kanpur and Ramvir Upadhaya Sadabad in Hathras and Louise Khurshid who is contesting on the Congress ticket from Farrukhabad Sadar Louise Khurshid is the wife of senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid Former IPS officer Asim Arun is contesting from Kannauj Sadar on the BJP ticket while Uttar Pradesh minister Ramnaresh Agnihotri is also in the fray in this phase In the 2017 Assembly elections the BJP had won 49 of the 59 seats while the SP had settled for nine The Congress had got one seat while the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP drew a blank The 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases The results are scheduled to be announced on March 10 PTI NAV AQS AQS
Lucknow Feb 20 PTI An average 815 per cent voting was recorded in Uttar Pradesh till 9 am on Sunday The third phase of polling in 59 Assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm As per the data shared by the Election Commission the average polling percentage till 9 am was 762 per cent in Hathras 985 per cent in Firozabad 953 per cent in Kasganj 1016 per cent in Etah 1102 per cent in Mainpuri 588 per cent in Farrukhabad 1011 per cent in Kannauj 683 per cent in Etawah 774 per cent in Auraiya 618 per cent in Kanpur Dehat 566 per cent in Kanpur Nagar 953 per cent in Jalaun 769 per cent in Jhansi 936 per cent in Lalitpur 958 per cent in Hamirpur and 800 per cent in Mahoba As many as 627 candidates are in the fray in this phase in which over 215 crore people are eligible to vote The districts where polling is being held are Hathras Firozabad Etah Kasganj Mainpuri Farrukhabad Kannauj Etawah Auraiya Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur Hamirpur and Mahoba The Karhal assembly seat from where Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is contesting is also going to the polls in this phase The BJP has fielded Union minister S P Singh Baghel from the seat Sundays polling will also seal the fate of the Samajwadi Party chiefs uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav who is contesting from his traditional Jaswantnagar seat Before the campaigning ended for the third phase on Friday Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra undertook a door-to-door march in Kanpur Kalpi Jalaun and Hamirpur while BSP chief Mayawati addressed election meetings in Jalaun and Auraiya Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav sought votes for his son Akhilesh Yadav in Karhal The BJP had approached the Election Commission seeking deployment of paramilitary forces at all booths in Karhal Among other prominent faces in the fray in this phase are BJPs Satish Mahana Maharajpur in Kanpur and Ramvir Upadhaya Sadabad in Hathras and Louise Khurshid who is contesting on the Congress ticket from Farrukhabad Sadar Louise Khurshid is the wife of senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid Former IPS officer Asim Arun is contesting from Kannauj Sadar on the BJP ticket while Uttar Pradesh minister Ramnaresh Agnihotri is also in the fray in this phase In the 2017 Assembly elections the BJP had won 49 of the 59 seats while the SP had settled for nine The Congress had got one seat while the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP drew a blank The 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases The results are scheduled to be announced on March 10 PTI NAV AQS AQS
