Punjab on Saturday recorded an estimated 70% voter turnout. Over 79% electors had cast their votes in the 2012 Assembly polls.
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The final figure of Saturday’s voting is still awaited as all those who were inside the polling booths will be allowed to vote, an election official spokesman said in Chandigarh.
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The total number of electors in the State is 1,98,79,069, including 93,75,546 females. There are 415 transgender voters.
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Saturday’s polling will decide the fate of a number of political bigwigs, including 89-year-old Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal (pictured here), seeking a sixth term in office, his old political rival and the Congress’ CM face Amarinder Singh, who has declared it will be his last election, and Mr. Badal’s son and deputy Sukhbir.
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85-year-old Mukhtar Singh is being helped by his relatives to reach to a polling station to cast his vote in a village, about 25 km from Amritsar.
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90-year-old Madho Ram shows his indelible ink marked finger and voter ID card after casting his vote at a polling station in a village, about 25 km from Amritsar, on Saturday.
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A first time voter (L) shows the indelible ink marked finger after casting vote at a polling station in a village, about 25 km from Amritsar, on Saturday.
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Voters being ferried to a polling booth in an autorickshaw. District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Ravi Bhagat said the administration, through volunteers, are approaching such voters at their residence to bring them to the polling booth.
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