Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Phase 6 Live Updates: The approximate voter turnout is 25.76 per cent as of 11 am, as per the Election Commission’s Voter Turnout App. After a largely peaceful first half of polling across 58 constituencies in six states and two Union Territories, West Bengal is witnessing slight unrest with ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers protesting against BJP candidates including Abhijit Gangopadhyay from Tamluk and Hiran Chattopadhyay from Ghatal. Meanwhile, PDP chief Mehboob Mufti is also on a sit-in protest in Kashmir after alleging EVM tampering and that her party’s polling agents have been locked up in police stations.
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As per the initial voter turnout figures, West Bengal recorded the highest turnout at 16.54 per cent and Odisha recorded the lowest at 7.43 per cent in the first two hours of polling, according to the Election Commission (EC). Uttar Pradesh recorded a voter turnout of 12.33 per cent, Jharkhand 11.74 per cent, Bihar 9.66 per cent, Jammu and Kashmir 8.89 per cent, Delhi 8.94 per cent and Haryana 8.31 per cent, the EC’s Voter Turnout App showed.
All the seven seats in Delhi are up for the polls today, followed by 10 seats in Haryana, eight in Bihar, eight in West Bengal, six in Odisha, four in Jharkhand, and 14 in Uttar Pradesh. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will also wrap up its election schedule with the final five (voting in Anantnag-Rajouri was moved from the third to the sixth phase) voting today. With the end of Phase 6 polling, only 57 seats will be left to vote in the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
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