A voter turnout of 39.13 % was recorded at 1 pm in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections held on 58 seats.
Polling is underway across six states and two Union Territories (UTs), Delhi, and Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, the voter turnout at 9 am was 10.82 per cent.
Polling is underway in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 seats in Haryana, seven seats in Delhi, eight seats each in Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, four seats in Jharkhand and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir. Simultaneously, polling is also being held for 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha.
At 1 pm, Delhi saw a voter turnout of 34.37 %, 37.23 % in Uttar Pradesh, 36.48 % in Bihar, 54.80 % in West Bengal, 35.69 % in Odisha, 42.54 % in Jharkhand and 35.22 % in Jammu and Kashmir at 1 pm.
Earlier at 11 am, Delhi recorded a voter turnout of 21.69 %, 27.06 % in Uttar Pradesh, 23.67 % in Bihar, 36.88 % in West Bengal, 21.30 % in Odisha, 27.80 % in Jharkhand and 23.11 % in Jammu and Kashmir at 11 am.
Voting began at 7 am and will go on till 6 pm. People were seen queuing up at several polling stations on 58 seats.
Several prominent candidates who are contesting in this phase are Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Rao Inderjit Singh and Krishan Pal Gurjar, BJP’s Maneka Gandhi, Sambit Patra, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Manohar Lal Khattar and Manoj Tiwari, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and Congress leaders Deepender Singh Hooda, Raj Babbar and Kanhaiya Kumar.
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