There were 52 candidates in the fray for the five seats of Uttarakhand where the contest was mainly between the BJP and Congress.
A voter turnout of 61.50 percent was recorded in Uttarakhand which went to polls in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 11. According to final polling percentage released by the Election Commission after collating data received from remote corners of the hill state late on April 12 night a total of 61.50 percent of the 78.56 lakh voters exercised their franchise on the polling day.
The final polling percentage in Uttarakhand released by the poll body is only slightly lower than 61.67 percent voter turnout recorded in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Giving the break-up of the final polling percentage on all the five seats of the state, the commission said Haridwar recorded the highest turnout of 68.92 percent followed by Nainital which recorded a turnout 68.69 percent.
58.30 percent of the electorate voted in Tehri, 54.47 percent in Pauri and 51.82 percent in Almora which is a reserved seat.
There were 52 candidates in the fray for the five seats of Uttarakhand where the contest was mainly between the BJP and Congress.
The outcome of seats keenly awaited are Nainital where former chief minister Harish Rawat battled state BJP president Ajay Bhatt, Tehri where sitting BJP MP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah was challenged by PCC president Pritam Singh and Pauri where former BJP MLA Tirath Singh Rawat took on sitting party MP BC Khanduri's son Manish who debuts as a Congress candidate.
