Nagaland Voter Turnout

Over 83 per cent of the more than 13 lakh electorate cast their vote today in the single-day Nagaland state election which passed off by and large peacefully, Chief Electoral Officer V Shashank Shekhar said.

Voting in the lone Lok Sabha parliamentary seat ended peacefully on Thursday, with an estimated 78 per cent voter turnout.

After VVPAT machines developed snags during Monday's Lok Sabha bypolls, re-polling is underway today in five booths of Shamli and 68 booths of Saharanpur falling under the Kairana parliamentary constituency, Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland.

Around 73 per cent voter turnout was reported in the re-polling at 13 polling stations across nine constituencies in Nagaland today, an election department official said.

Nagaland recorded 75 per cent voters turnout on Tuesday, whereas the polling in Meghalaya stood at 67 per cent, with hundreds still lined up to cast ballots at the end of voting hours, the Election Commission said.

The highest turnout of voters in the 16th Lok Sabha election was recorded in the northeastern state of Nagaland, with 87.82 percent of electors exercising their franchise, while the lowest turnout of 49.52 percent was in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission said on Thursday.

It was another spectacle of very high turnout of voters today in six Lok Sabha constituencies spread across four north-eastern states where polling was by and large peaceful.

A BJP leader has demanded that the voting time in the Lok Sabha polls should be increased till 7 pm for an impressive voter turnout.

Nagaland witnessed a high 83.29 per cent turnout of voters to elect 59 members of the 60-member Assembly on Saturday with the polling by and large peaceful.

Over 83 per cent of the more than 13 lakh electorate cast their vote today in the single-day Nagaland state election which passed off by and large peacefully, Chief Electoral Officer V Shashank Shekhar said.

Voting in the lone Lok Sabha parliamentary seat ended peacefully on Thursday, with an estimated 78 per cent voter turnout.

After VVPAT machines developed snags during Monday's Lok Sabha bypolls, re-polling is underway today in five booths of Shamli and 68 booths of Saharanpur falling under the Kairana parliamentary constituency, Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland.

Around 73 per cent voter turnout was reported in the re-polling at 13 polling stations across nine constituencies in Nagaland today, an election department official said.

Nagaland recorded 75 per cent voters turnout on Tuesday, whereas the polling in Meghalaya stood at 67 per cent, with hundreds still lined up to cast ballots at the end of voting hours, the Election Commission said.

The highest turnout of voters in the 16th Lok Sabha election was recorded in the northeastern state of Nagaland, with 87.82 percent of electors exercising their franchise, while the lowest turnout of 49.52 percent was in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission said on Thursday.

It was another spectacle of very high turnout of voters today in six Lok Sabha constituencies spread across four north-eastern states where polling was by and large peaceful.

A BJP leader has demanded that the voting time in the Lok Sabha polls should be increased till 7 pm for an impressive voter turnout.

Nagaland witnessed a high 83.29 per cent turnout of voters to elect 59 members of the 60-member Assembly on Saturday with the polling by and large peaceful.