By means of PTI
LUCKNOW: Over 60 in keeping with cent voter turnout was once recorded within the first section of polling hung on Thursday throughout 58 meeting constituencies in 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Polling closed at 6 pm following a one-hour extension as a result of COVID-19 protocols.
The day handed off peacefully with minor technical snags in EVMs at some puts, election officers stated.
Further Leader Election Officer (ACEO) B D Ram Tiwari stated, “There have been reviews of a technical error in EVMs at some puts.”
The ones EVMs have been being changed because the reviews got here in, he added.
At the Samajwadi Birthday party’s allegation that deficient electorate weren’t allowed to workout their franchise in Dundukheda village within the Kairana meeting constituency, Tiwari stated the district Justice of the Peace involved was once requested to appear into the subject.
Agra recorded 60. 33 in keeping with cent polling, Aligarh 60.49 in keeping with cent, Baghpat 61.35 in keeping with cent, Bulandshahr 60.52 in keeping with cent, Gautam Buddh Nagar 56.73 in keeping with cent, Ghaziabad 54.77 in keeping with cent, Hapur 60.50 in keeping with cent, Mathura 63.28 in keeping with cent, Meerut 60.91 in keeping with cent, Muzaffarnagar 65.34 in keeping with cent and Shamli 69.42 in keeping with cent, an EC file stated.
Throughout the 2017 meeting elections, 63.47 in keeping with cent polling was once recorded in those constituencies, the file stated.
As many as 623 applicants, together with 73 ladies, are within the fray within the first section, state EC officers stated.
State ministers whose destiny will likely be determined on this section come with Shrikant Sharma, Suresh Rana, Sandeep Singh, Kapil Dev Agarwal, Atul Garg and Chowdhury Lakshmi Narain.
In 2017, the BJP had bagged 53 of the 58 seats within the area, whilst the Samajwadi Birthday party and the BSP had were given two seats each and every.
One seat had long past to the Rashtriya Lok Dal.