Uttar Pradesh recorded 60.1 per cent voter turnout in the sixth phase polls on Tuesday in western Uttar Pradesh spread over 13 districts covering 68 Assembly segments and having the largest concentration of jats and Muslims.
An election official in Delhi said, “The turnout shows an increase of around 29 per cent as compared to the previous Assembly polls in 2007.”
“A total of 60.1 per cent voters out of an electorate of 2.15 crore cast their vote in the sixth phase of polling till 5 pm,” said chief electoral officer Umesh Kumar in Lucknow. In the same phase in 2007, the voter turnout was pegged at 46.81 per cent.
The maximum voter turnout was in Saharanpur district, which recorded 64.86 per cent voter turnout while Baghpat and Gautam Buddha Nagar recorded the lowest turnout at 55.6 per cent. The Assembly segment that topped in the voter turnout was the Saharanpur Assembly segment that scored 69 per cent and the lowest turnout was in the Noida Assembly segment that lagged behind with 50 per cent.
Briefing reporters, chief electoral officer Umesh Singh said that compared to 2007, the voter turnout had increased by almost 13 per cent in the same phase.
The fate of 1,103 candidates, including 86 women, will be decided in this phase of the poll.
In polling station number 67 in Modinagar in Ghaziabad, repoll will be held since the electronic voting machines had not been cleared during the mock drill held earlier.
Two villages in Behat Assembly segment in Saharanpur boycotted the polls to protest against lack of development.
In Baghpat, a clash between two communities left three persons injured but the CEO said that the violence was not poll related. The districts where polling was held in this phase are Saharanpur, Prabuddha Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Panchsheel Nagar etc.