12% voting recorded till 10 am in phase 7

May 19, 2019 11:01

Nearly 1 per cent voters cast their votes in the first three hours of polling in the final round of the seven-phase elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modis constituency Varanasi is among the 59 parliamentary seats voting across 7 states.

At 10 am, the Election Commission website put the overall voting figure at 11.61%, with Jharkhand reporting highest turnout of 15% and Punjab lowest of 10.01%.

Early morning queues were seen at several polling booths in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was among the early voters and batted for shorter poll schedules: "Elections should not be held over such a long duration, there was a long gap between each phase of voting. I will write to leaders of all parties to build a consensus on this."

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