As of 5p.m., West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout (77.99%) followed by Jharkhand (61.41%), Uttar Pradesh (52.02%), Odisha (59.60%), Jammu and Kashmir (51.35%), Bihar (52.24%), Haryana (55.93%), and Delhi (53.73%)
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The Election Commission of India reported that the sixth phase of the General Elections 2024 saw a voter turnout of 59.6% as of 7:45 p.m.
Among the states, West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout at 77.99%, followed by Jharkhand at 61.41%, Odisha at 59.60%, Haryana at 55.93%, Delhi at 53.73%, Bihar at 52.24%, Uttar Pradesh at 52.02%, and Jammu and Kashmir at 51.35%, as of 5:00 p.m.
Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Electoral Officer, P. C. Pole, stated that the polling process for the five parliamentary seats in the Union Territory concluded, with the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency registering a 53% voter turnout. Overall, polling in the Union Territory was 58%, the highest in 35 years, marking a nine-percent increase over the previous record in 2014.
Polling was conducted in all seven constituencies in Delhi, 14 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 seats in Haryana, eight seats each in Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, four seats in Jharkhand, and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir. Additionally, voting took place for 42 Assembly constituencies in Odisha and the Karnal Assembly bypoll in Haryana.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, contesting from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat, staged a sit-in outside Bijbehara police station on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway in Anantnag district, protesting the alleged detention of her party workers and polling agents. Her daughter, PDP leader Iltija Mufti, claimed that polling was being deliberately slowed at a booth in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, a charge denied by the administration.
The last phase of polling will be on June 1 for the remaining 57 seats, with the counting of votes scheduled for June 4.
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