Srinagar: Only 702 of the 35,169 voters voted on Thursday in the Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.

"About 2.02 per cent voting has been recorded," an Election Commission official told IANS.

The re-polling followed widespread violence during Sunday's voting which left eight people dead in firing by security forces. On Thursday there was only one incident of stone-pelting by youths, officials said.

Only seven per cent voters turned out on April 9 in the districts of Srinagar, Ganderbal and Budgam where 15 assembly segments constituting the Srinagar-Budgam parliamentary seats are situated.

It was because of unprecedented violence and the lowest-ever voter turnout on April 9, that the Election Commission deferred the April 12 by-poll in Anantnag parliamentary constituency to May 25.