Repoll was held in 123 stations in Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana and Maharashtra’s Bhandara-Gondia and one booth in Nagaland on Wednesday on the Election Commission’s directions.
Fresh polls were ordered at 73 stations in Kairana and 49 in Bhandara-Gondia after a large number of VVPATs and some EVMs developed glitches during the bypolls on Monday. It was conducted at one booth in Nagaland where a mob had damaged the EVM. Of the 73 booths, 68 are in the Saharanpur district and the rest are in Shamli. The vote percentage stood at 61% till 6 p.m.
Over 48.85% voter turnout was registered at the 49 polling stations in the five Assembly segments of the Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha constituency. Repoll was held at 14 centres in Bhandara assembly segment, four in Sakoli, two in Arjuni Moregoan, eight in Tiroda and 21 in Gondia. Of the 39,589 registered voters at these 49 centres, 19,338 cast their votes.
The voter turnout at the booth in Nagaland was 44.68%, while the overall percentage was about 75%. The Lok Sabha seat fell vacant after the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party leader Neiphiu Rio resigned in February when he took over as the Chief Minister.
The counting, for the bypolls held across 10 States, will be on Thursday. The focus is on the Kairana parliamentary constituency, where the Opposition parties had come together against the BJP.
