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LIVE | Voting begins for the seventh and final round of national elections

THE ASIAN AGE.
Published : May 19, 2019, 7:13 am IST
Updated : May 19, 2019, 8:39 am IST

Voting is going to happen across the states of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, MP, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Chandigarh.

Preparations are underway at polling booth no.162 at Calcutta Boys School in North Kolkata parliamentary constituency. (Photo: ANI)
 Preparations are underway at polling booth no.162 at Calcutta Boys School in North Kolkata parliamentary constituency. (Photo: ANI)

New Delhi: The seven-phase poll process for electing the 17th Lok Sabha will come to an end with voting in 59 parliamentary constituencies across 8 states on Sunday. More than two months of official campaigning for the 2019 general elections ended on Friday.

In the last six phases, an average of 66.88 per cent voters exercised their franchise. The whole elections were spread over 38 days.

Here are the updates:

8:20am: CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew & TMC leader, Abhishek Banerjee casts his vote at polling booth no. 208 in South Kolkata Parliamentary Constituency.

8:10am: BJP Lok Sabha candidate from South Kolkata parliamentary constituency, CK Bose casts his vote at a polling booth in City College, in Kolkata.

8:05am: Kolkata North BJP candidate Rahul Sinha casts his vote at polling booth in Bijoygarh Shikshaniketan For Girls, in Jadavpur.

8:00am: Voting underway for by-election to the Sulur assembly constituency, in Tamil Nadu.

7:54: Bihar: EVM malfunction reported at booth no.6 in Pant Nagar of Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency).

7:44am: Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi casts his vote at booth number 49 in Patna.

7:40am: Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar: Elections should not be held over such a long duration, there was a long gap between each phase of voting. I will write to leaders of all parties to build a consensus on this.

7:26am: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar casts his vote at polling booth number 326 at a school in Raj Bhawan, Patna.

7:24am: Polling began Sunday morning in all 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab and the lone Chandigarh constituency in the seventh and final phase of general elections, with prominent faces including SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and Union ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Puri in the fray.

7:18am: Residents of Tara Jivanpur village in Chandauli allege ink was forcefully applied to their fingers & they were given Rs 500 on Saturday by 3 men of their village. Say, "They were from BJP & asked us if we'll vote for the party. They told us now you can't vote. Don't tell anyone."

7:07am: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath exercises his franchise at polling booth no. 246 in Gorakhpur.

7:00am: Voting begins.

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With inputs from PTI and ANI.

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