Rajasthan voter turnout 75.45 per cent, slightly higher than last assembly polls

Rajasthan recorded a voter turnout of 7545 per cent in the assembly polls held on Saturday marginally higher than the figure of previous elections in 2018In 2018 the state registered a turnout of 7471 per centVoting at more than 51000 polling booths in 199 out of the 200 assembly constituencies in the state was held on Saturday Due to the demise of the Congress candidate election in the Karanpur assembly constituency of Sriganganagar district was postponedRajasthan Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said on Sunday that 7545 per cent of the electorate voted in the elections including 083 per cent who used postal ballotsHe said 7453 per cent of the male voters and 7472 per cent of the female voters cast their votesIn 2018 the overall voting turnout was 7471 per cent He said 7475 per cent of the male voters and 7467 per cent of the female voters had voted in the last electionsIn the Kushalgarh assembly constituency the turnout was 8813 per cent as compared to 8613 per cent in 2018In the Pokaran constituency the voting percentage was 8779 as compared to 8750 in 2018The Tijara assembly constituency recorded a turnout of 8611 per cent as against 8208 per cent in 2018Gupta said that the lowest voting through EVMs was recorded in the Ahor assembly constituency at 6124 per cent The constituency had recorded 6153 per cent voting in 2018Of the total 52538105 voters in these 199 assembly constituencies 39211399 cast their votes 18827294 women 20383757 men and 348 third gender votersThe election in Rajasthan was a bipolar contest between the Congress and the BJPThe Congress is aiming to buck the trend of the ruling party being voted out every five years while the BJP is eyeing a return in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next yearCongress leaders including Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot state unit president Govind Singh Dotasra and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and BJP leaders including former chief minister Vasundhara Raje leader of opposition Rajendra Rathore and deputy leader of opposition Satish Poonia were among the 1862 candidates in the 199 seatsThe Election Commission had made elaborate arrangements to ensure smooth polling with more than 170 lakh security personnel being deployed across the statePolling passed off peacefully barring a few stray incidents of violenceDirector General of Police Law and Order Rajeev Sharma said seven cases of electionrelated incidents have been registered by the police and 77 people were arrested or detained in various cases in the state on SaturdayThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever