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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Feb 20, 2022, 01:34 PM IST
An average of 21.18 per cent voting was recorded in the first four hours of polling in 59 Assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Polling started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
Here are the average polling percentages shared by the Election Commission till 11 am:
- 22.67 per cent in Hathras
- 24.32 per cent in Firozabad
- 22.54 per cent in Kasganj
- 24.30 per cent in Etah
- 24.46 per cent in Mainpuri
- 19.64 per cent in Farrukhabad
- 22 per cent in Kannauj
- 19.84 per cent in Etawah
- 18.53 per cent in Auraiya
- 19.86 per cent in Kanpur Dehat
- 16.79 per cent in Kanpur Nagar
- 21.66 per cent in Jalaun
- 19.11 per cent in Jhansi
- 25.80 per cent in Lalitpur
- 23.30 per cent in Hamirpur
- 23.50 per cent in Mahoba
In the third phase of UP elections 2022, there are 627 candidates in the fray and over 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote.
The districts where polling is being held are Hathras, Firozabad, Etah, Kasganj, Mainpuri, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Mahoba.
The Karhal assembly seat, from where Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is contesting, is also going to the polls in this phase. The BJP has fielded Union minister S P Singh Baghel from the seat.
Sunday's polling will also seal the fate of the Samajwadi Party chief's uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, who is contesting from his traditional Jaswantnagar seat. Among the prominent political leaders who cast their votes on Sunday are Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple Yadav, Shivpal Singh Yadav, Ramgopal Yadav, Congress leader Salman Khurshid, UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh and UP minister Satish Mahana.
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Meanwhile, Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey and former BJP office-bearer Nawab Singh have landed in trouble as they revealed the parties they voted for. FIRs are being registered against them.
Pandey took her mobile phone inside the polling booth at Hudson School, and clicked a selfie while exercising her right following which an FIR was being lodged against her, said a senior official.
In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP had won 49 of the 59 seats while the SP had settled for nine. The Congress had got one seat while the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) drew a blank.
The 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases. The results are scheduled to be announced on March 10.
