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Voter turnout in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections was recorded 65.61 percent.
Updated : Apr 23, 2019, 11:03 PM IST
Nearly 66 percent voter turnout was recorded in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Tuesday, the Election Commission said. In the third phase, voting was held in 116 Lok Sabha seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with BJP president Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and several Union ministers among prominent candidates in the fray.
Voter turnout in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections is 65.61 percent till 8.00 pm, a mobile application launched by the EC said.
This phase will decide the fate of the heads of the BJP and Congress -- Amit Shah, who replaced LK Advani as the party nominee from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, and Rahul Gandhi, who is contesting from Wayanad in Kerala besides his traditional Amethi seat in Uttar Pradesh.
This was by far the biggest phase in terms of constituencies. In the first two phases, election was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18 respectively. Election to 543 seats is being held in seven phases. The counting of votes will be on May 23.
The third phase of polls was marred with violence in West Bengal where a person was hacked to death in Murshidabad.
In Kerala, 11 deaths, all due to 'natural' reasons, were reported, Deputy Election Commissioner Sudip Jain told reporters here. He said, out of the total 2.81 lakh ballot units deployed, 1593 were replaced. Similarly, out of 2.11 lakh control units, 1225 were replaced.
Of total 2.11 lakh paper trail machines, 4725 were replaced, Jain said. He said this was by far the biggest deployment of paper trail machines since the concept was introduced after a Supreme Court directive in 2013.
"When a control unit or a ballot unit is replaced, the paper trail machines have to be replaced along with it. Thus the higher number of replacements," Jain said. At least one control unit and one ballot unit make up for an electronic voting machine.
Among other prominent candidates in this phase are Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav (Mainpuri-Uttar Pradesh), Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and former Governor and BJP nominee Kummanam Rajasekharan (Thiruvananthapuram-Kerala), and AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal (Dhubri-Assam).
All seats in Gujarat (26), Kerala (20), Goa (2), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (1) and Daman and Diu (1) went to polls in the third of the seven-phase election.
Besides, polling was also held in four seats in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, one in Jammu and Kashmir, 14 in Karnataka, 14 in Maharashtra, six in Odisha, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, and five in West Bengal.
Voting in Tripura East constituency, which was earlier scheduled for April 18, was also held in the 3rd phase. Polling is being held in a part of the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir, where election is being held in three phases.
Lok Sabha election 2019 phase 3 highlights:
Lok Sabha election 2019 phase 3 recorded a total of 65.61 nearly 66% voter turnout, the Election Commission said. Polling was held in 116 Lok Sabha seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with BJP president Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and several Union ministers among prominent candidates in the fray.
The overall voter turnout in the 3rd phase of Lok Sabha election 2019 stands at 63.24%
Total voter turnout for 3rd phase of #LokSabhaElections2019 is 63.24%.
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Odisha - 58.18%
Tripura - 78.52%
Utar Pradesh - 57.74%
West Bengal - 79.36
Chhattisgarh - 65.91%
Dadra & Nagar Haveli - 71.43%
Daman & Diu - 65.34% https://t.co/CmyxZmbhVW
Lok Sabha election 2019 phase 3 voter turn out till 6 pm: Assam: 74.05%, Bihar: 59.81%, Jammu and Kashmir: 12.86%, Gujarat: 59.41, Karnataka: 62.72%, Kerala: 68.55%, Maharashtra: 56.18%, Odisha: 57.12%, Tripura: 78.37%, Uttar Pradesh: 56.57%, West Bengal: 79.22%, Chhattisgarh: 64.87%, Dadra & Nagar Haveli: 71.43%, Daman & Diu: 64.82% and Goa: 70.97%.
BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Kendrapara, Baijayant Jay Panda, casts his vote for Lok Sabha elections 2019 and Odisha Assembly elections at booth No. 19 in Bhubaneswar.
Odisha: BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Kendrapara, Baijayant Jay Panda, casts his vote for #LokSabhaElections2019 and #OdishaAssemblyElections at Booth No. 19 in Bhubaneswar. pic.twitter.com/E1pymZWOd7
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Lok Sabha election 2019 phase 3 voter turn out till 5 pm: Assam: 74.05%, Bihar: 54.95%, Jammu and Kashmir: 11.99%, Karnataka: 60.87%, Kerala: 68.55%, Maharashtra: 55.02%, Odisha: 57.12%, Tripura: 70.38%, Uttar Pradesh: 58.21%, West Bengal: 78.93%, Chhattisgarh: 63.52%, Dadra & Nagar Haveli: 71.43% and Daman & Diu: 64.82%.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP leader, Jagadish Shettar casts his vote at a polling booth in Hubballi-Dharwad, Karnataka.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP leader, Jagadish Shettar casts his vote at a polling booth in Hubballi-Dharwad, Karnataka. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/U6wKT2Q7WA
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Samajwadi Party leader and SP-BSP-RLD candidate from Rampur, Azam Khan, and his son Abdullah Azam Khan, cast their vote at a polling station in the district pic.twitter.com/b0UDW7Mw1s
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 23, 2019
Jammu & Kashmir: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti casts her vote at polling booth number-37D in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district. #LokSabhaElection2019 pic.twitter.com/iOTULPPtLr
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Assam: Former Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh leaves after casting his vote at a polling booth in Dispur. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/vrdI28NIXw
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Delhi: Actor Sunny Deol joins Bharatiya Janata Party in presence of Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman pic.twitter.com/QgXwv5OrBI
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav: EVMs across India malfunctioning or voting for the BJP. DMs say poll officials untrained to operate EVMs. 350+ being replaced. This is criminal negligence for a polling exercise that costs 50,000 crs
Should we believe DMs @ECISVEEP, or is something far more sinister afoot? asks Akhilesh Yadav
Viramgam: Congress leader Hardik Patel casts his vote at booth number 252/355 in Surendranagar constituency. #Gujarat #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/E0inooJluO
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Wayanad: People queue up at a polling booth in Sugandhagiri to cast their vote in the third phase of polling of #LokSabhaElections2019. #Kerala pic.twitter.com/ugt44TxtKT
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Karnataka: Senior Congress leader and Gulbarga candidate Mallikarjun Kharge casts his vote at polling booth number 119 in Gulabarga. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/GgGH8i19IA
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
J&K: Kashmiri Pandits cast their votes at a Special Polling Station in Udhampur, for Anantnag parliamentary constituency. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/7g1lRxXdVJ
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Karnataka: Priyank Kharge and his wife Shruthi Kharge casts their votes at polling station number 26, in Gundagurti village, in Kalaburagi Lok Sabha constituency. pic.twitter.com/rawbo497kG
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
#WATCH Moradabad: BJP workers beat an Election Official at booth number 231 alleging he was asking voters to press the 'cycle' symbol of Samajwadi party pic.twitter.com/FokdXCAJ1z
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 23, 2019
Social activist Anna Hazare after casting his vote in Ralegan Siddhi,Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/KAGwbSc1EQ
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Jammu & Kashmir: Voting underway at polling booth in Government Higher Senior Secondary School in Khanabal in Anantnag. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/9um9BNNOB9
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Polling up to 9 am in Maharashtra: Aurangabad- 9%, Ahmednagar - 4%, Pune - 8.79%, Baramati - 6.09%, Sangli - 6.71%, Jalna - 10%, Madha- 6.49%, Sangli - 2.91, Satara - 2.91, Ratnagiri - Sindhudurg - 3.41%, Kolhapur - 6.85%, Hatkanangle - 7.06%, Raigad - 7.17%, Jalgaon - 7.04%, Raver - 7.19%
Polling percentage recorded in third phase of Lok Sabha polls till 9 am: Assam-12.36%, Bihar-12.60%,Goa-2.29%,Guj-1.35%, J&K-0.00%, K'taka-1.75%, Kerala-2.48%, M'rashtra-0.99%, Odisha-1.32%, Tripura-1.56%, UP-6.84%, Chhattisgarh-2.24%, Dadra & Nagar Haveli - 0.00%, Daman & Diu - 5.83% (ANI inputs)
PM Modi: Today third phase of polling is underway, I am fortunate that I also got the opportunity to fulfill my duty in my home state of Gujarat. Like you feel pure after a holy dip in Kumbh, one feels pure after casting vote in this festival of democracy pic.twitter.com/yzjBd3Kpfz
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Maharashtra: Nationalist Congress Party's Supriya Sule along with her family casts her vote a polling station in Baramati; She is sitting MP and NCP MP candidate from Baramati pic.twitter.com/iNVAP3QDAr
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
PM Narendra Modi after casting his vote at a polling booth in Ranip,Ahmedabad #Gujarat #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/B6jDiRf2ka
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
West Bengal: Bombs hurled at TMC councillor Tajamel Ansari some 300 metres away from the polling booth in Murshidabad’s Domkol. He was rushed to the local hospital, later shifted to Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital. Meanwhile, central force jawans are carrying out route marches in the area.
Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his mother at her residence in Gandhinagar today. He will cast his vote in Ahmedabad, shortly. pic.twitter.com/CUncTSpBTt
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Bihar: Visuals from polling booth number 151 in Supaul parliamentary constituency where voting is yet to begin, currently mock poll is underway at the polling booth after a faulty EVM was replaced pic.twitter.com/GupGE3i8Pc
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Assam: Polling underway at polling booth number 155 in
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Lachit Nagar, Guwahati, in the third phase of #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/r4uYCoBXD2
Gujarat: BJP President and party's candidate from Gandhinagar Parliamentary constituency Amit Shah, near the polling booth at Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip, Ahmedabad. PM Narendra Modi will cast his vote at the polling booth, shortly. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/rSn96OTbiJ
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Kerala: CM P. Vijayan queues up to casts his vote at polling booth in RC Amala Basic UP School in Pinarayi in Kannur district. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/LLydBK4FcN
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
Besides all seats in Gujarat (26) and Kerala (20), voting will be held in four seats in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, 14 each in Karnataka and Maharashtra, six in Odisha, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, five in West Bengal, two in Goa, and one each in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Tripura. Voting in Tripura East constituency, which was earlier scheduled for April 18, is also being held, as also in a part of the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir, where election is being held in three phases.
Voting is also being held in some Assembly constituencies in Odisha, Gujarat and Goa.
BJP president Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and several Union ministers are among prominent candidates in the fray in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections.