High rate of polling recorded in Kalahandi

The Pioneer, April 18, 2009
PNS | Bhawanipatna

In the lone Lok Sabha constituency and five Assembly seats in Kalahandi district, 7,01,918 voters out of total 10,10,793 exercised their franchise on Thursday.

In the Bhawanipatna Assembly constituency, 64.17 per cent polling was recorded with 1,26,434 voters out of the total 1,97,028 casting their votes.

Similarly, in Narla, 1,36,780 electors out of 1,92,555 cast their votes, recording a 71.03 per cent turnout; in Lanjigarh, 1,34,113 out of 1,94, 834 voters turned up registering a 68.55 per cent polling; in Junagarh, 1,46,444 out of 2,06,446 cast their votes recording a 70.94 per cent polling; and in Dharmagarh, 1,58,147 out of 2,19,932 exercised their franchise recording a 71.91 per cent polling.

In the presence of all the MLA and MP candidates, the EVMs were sealed and kept in safe custody of the district administration on Friday.