The polling percentage for all 230 seats is 76.22 per
cent after the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh concluded on Friday,
according to the latest data from the Election Commission.
Madhya Pradesh has surpassed the polling percentage of
the 2018 Assembly polls when it saw 74.97 per cent polling.
The male voting percentage was 75.84 per cent, for
females it was 74.01 per cent and for third gender, it was 25 per cent in the
2018 elections.
In terms of constituencies, the highest voting
percentage is in Ratlam’s Sailana Assembly constituency at 90 per cent, Seoni’s
Barghat constituency recorded 88.20 per cent polling and Mandsaur’s Malhargarh
constituency saw a voting percentage of 87.08 per cent.
Seoni district recorded the highest polling percentage
of 85.68 per cent while in the state capital Bhopal, the voting percentage was
66 per cent.
The voting percentage till 5 pm in the state was 71.16
per cent, Chief Electoral Officer Anupam Rajan told the media in the state
capital, Bhopal.
Voting for assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh began at 7
am on Friday. The election will decide the electoral fate of over 2,500
candidates, including Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Ministers
Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Patel, Faggan Singh Kulaste and former Congress
Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
Nearly, 5.59 crore voters were eligible to exercise
their franchise. It included 2.87 crore male and 2.71 crore female voters.
There were over 5,000 booths run by women and 183 polling stations run by the
disabled, officials said.
The Assembly polls, coming nearly six months ahead of
the Lok Sabha polls, are crucial for both the BJP and Congress for various
reasons.
The counting of votes in Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh, along with that in Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram, will be
done on December 3.
ANI
