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UP Polling Live: Approx. 57.36% voting in Uttar Pradesh 5th phase, till 5 pm Last Updated : 27 Feb 2017 06:23:45 PM IST 49.19% voting in Uttar Pradesh fifth phase assembly elections till 3 pm
Hundreds of thousands voted on Monday in 51 assembly constituencies in the fifth phase of staggered elections in Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Approx. 57.36% voting recorded till 5 PM in the fifth phase of UP elections. where as 52% voting in Uttar Pradesh took palce till 4 pm
An estimated 49.1 per cent of the 1.8 crore electorate had voted between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., the Election Commission said.
After a slow start, voting picked up massively all across the 11 districts including Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.
BJP's first timer Garima Singh is pitted against Gayatri Prajapati of the ruling Samajwadi Party and Congress' Ameeta Singh in Amethi besides 21 other candidates.
It is one of those constituencies where the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance hasn't worked.
Hundreds of thousands had also voted in Basti, Ambedkarnagar, Sultanpur, Bahraich, Faizabad, Sant Kabir Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Shravasti and Gonda, officials said.Voting is on in 18,822 polling booths to decide the fate of 607 candidates. Amethi has the maximum number of 24 candidates.
Election has been cancelled in Alapur in Ambedkarnagar district following the death of the Samajwadi Party candidate.
In 2012, the Samajwadi Party won 36 of the 51 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress five each, the BSP three and the Peace Party two.
A total of 262 of the 403 assembly constituencies voted in the first four rounds of the elections which began on February 11. The last two rounds of voting will take place on March 4 and 8.
The results of the elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab will be known on March 11.
- 16:37 : 52% voting in Uttar Pradesh fifth phase assembly election till 4 pm
- 15:34 : 49.19% voting in Uttar Pradesh fifth phase assembly elections till 3 pm
- 15:22 : Shravasti 56.13%, Siddharth nagar 47%, Amethi 49.25%, Sultanpur 48.5% voting till 3 pm
- 15:22 : Gonda 46%, Basti 50.73%, Sant kabir Nagar 48% voting till 3 pm
- 15:21 : Faizabad 52.50%, Balrampur 44.25%, Bahraich 51.59% voting till 3 pm
- 13:55 : 38.72% voting in Uttar Pradesh fifth phase assembly elections till 1 pm
- 13:37 : Balrampur 38.7%, Bahraich 38.57%, Basti 39.61%, Sant kabir Nagar 39% Voting till 1 pm
- 11:23 : 27% voting in Uttar Pradesh fifth phase assembly elections till 11 am
- 09:38 : Mahant Gyandas of Hanuman Gadi casts his vote at a polling booth in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh
- 09:24 : 10.77% voting in Uttar Pradesh fifth phase assembly elections till 9 am
- 09:23 : Voting underway in Ayodhya at polling booth no.127
- 09:23 : Congress Amethi candidate Amita Singh with husband and Congress MP Sanjay Singh after casting vote
- 09:23 : Voting underway at polling booths 127 and 128 in Amethi
- 09:22 : I am winning with a huge margin and Samajwadi Party Govt under Akhilesh ji will be in power again: Gayatri Prajapati,SP Amethi candidate
- 09:22 : Voting in Ambedkarnagar,Amethi,Bahraich Balrampur,Basti,Faizabad,Gonda,Sant kabir Nagar,Shravasti Siddharthnagar,Sultanpur uppolls2017
- 09:21 : Voting underway at polling booth no.40 in Amethi
- 09:21 : Voting for Uttar Pradesh's fifth phase of elections for 51 seats across 11 districts, begins (Visuals from Ayodhya)
- 09:21 : Security deployed at polling booth number 127 & 128 in Ayodhya for voting to begin at 7 am
- 09:20 : Polling preparations underway at booth number 175 in UP's Ayodhya
- 09:20 : Polling in the 5th phase of upelections 2017 for 51 seats to be held today from 7 am
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