Tuesday, November 18, 2008
55 percent voter turnout claimed in frist phase polls
With people coming out to vote Monday in the first phase of the seven-stage polling in Jammu and Kashmir, officials claimed that more than 55 percent electorate exercised their franchise.
Over all voting percentage in the state was recorded more than 55, deputy election commissioner of India R. Bhattacharya told reporters in Delhi. He said that Election Commission of India was ’still collating the data and the figures can go up’ adding that polling in the troubled state was by and large peaceful barring minor skirmishes.
In Srinagar, Chief electoral officer B.R. Sharma said 74 percent of voters polled in Gurez, 44 percent in Bandipora, 42 percent in Sonawari - the three constituencies of Kashmir Valley, where separatists had appealed for a poll boycott.
Speaking to reporters after the polling, which began at 8 AM and closed at 4 PM, Sharma said in Jammu region, Mendhar reported a turnout of 67 percent, Poonch Haveli 64 and Surankote 58. In the cold desert of Ladakh, where temperatures dipped below zero degrees Celsius, 48 percent of voters in Zanskar turned out, 57 percent in Kargil, 55 percent in Nobra and 53 in Leh, he said.
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Over all voting percentage in the state was recorded more than 55, deputy election commissioner of India R. Bhattacharya told reporters in Delhi. He said that Election Commission of India was ’still collating the data and the figures can go up’ adding that polling in the troubled state was by and large peaceful barring minor skirmishes.
In Srinagar, Chief electoral officer B.R. Sharma said 74 percent of voters polled in Gurez, 44 percent in Bandipora, 42 percent in Sonawari - the three constituencies of Kashmir Valley, where separatists had appealed for a poll boycott.
Speaking to reporters after the polling, which began at 8 AM and closed at 4 PM, Sharma said in Jammu region, Mendhar reported a turnout of 67 percent, Poonch Haveli 64 and Surankote 58. In the cold desert of Ladakh, where temperatures dipped below zero degrees Celsius, 48 percent of voters in Zanskar turned out, 57 percent in Kargil, 55 percent in Nobra and 53 in Leh, he said.
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http://epaper.kashmirtimes.com/KT/KT/2008/11/18/index.shtml
Labels: Bandipora, Delhi, Election Commission of India, frist phase polls, Jammu and Kashmir, poll boycott, Sonawari, three constituencies of Kashmir Valley, voters polled in Gurez, voting percentage
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