INDIA
Polling was being held today in by-election to nine Assembly seat and Vadodara Lok Sabha constituency, vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to the Election Commission, 7.01% people cast their franchise till 9 AM.
Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, where by-election was necessitated as Prime Minister Narendra Modi vacated the seat after winning with huge margin, witnessed 5.76% voters turn out till 9 AM. The nine Assembly seats where polling is underway are Maninagar, Anand, Limkheda, Deesa, Matar, Talaja, Tankara, Khambhalia and Mangrol.
Voter turn our at assembly seat of Deesa was registered at 4.44% in Banaskantha, Maninagar recorded 3.67% in Ahmedabad city , Tankara 14.37% in Rajkot, Khambhalia 10.99% in Jamnagar, Mangrol 10.5%, Talaja 9.5% in Junagadh, Anand 7.54% in Anand district and Limkheda registered 6.25%.
45 candidates are in fray for the assembly seats and 4 for the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat. By-polls were necessitated on these seats as sitting BJP MLAs resined from their posts after winning Lok Sabha election of 2014, including Modi, who also vacated Maninagar seat as sitting MLA.
Though all these seats were earlier held by BJP, Congress is hoping to make a dent this time by leveraging the absence of Modi in Gujarat. The elections are also seen as a litmus test for Chief Minister Anandi Patel, who along with local BJP leaders held whirlwind campaigns in all the nine seats in last one week.
Maninagar constituency, which was represented by Modi thrice when he served as Gujarat's Chief Minister, witnessed a tepid voter turn out of only 3.6% in the first two hours. Elsewhere also, including Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, less number of voters ventured to cast their voters during the early hours of voting.
The counting of votes will be conducted on September 17.
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