In Third Phase, Jammu Gives Thumbs Up To Civic Polls, Kashmir Stays Away | Read

In the third phase of the local body elections in Jammu and Kashmir, voter turnout crossed a little over 16 per cent today. While people in Jammu queued up outside polling booths taking the voting percentage to 81.4, those in the Valley largely stayed away. Just like in the previous phases, around 3.5 per cent votes were cast. In Jammu's Samba district, 82 per cent voted in the third phase, a repeat of the high voter turnout recorded in the first two phases in the region.