Mumbai: Over 65 percent of the total 9.70 crore plus voters exercised their democratic rights for the single-phase Maharashtra Assembly election till 6 pm on Wednesday.
According to sources in the Election Commission, on an average 65.11 percent votes were polled in the state till 6 pm.
The election authorities on Thursday said, besides reports of glitches in EVM machines at different places, and a few clashes between the rival political parties in some area, polling went on peacefully and no major untoward incident has been reported across the state.
The fate of 4136 candidates across the 288 assembly seats were sealed in EVMs.
The prominent candidates include Chief Minister Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena), Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (BJP), Ajit Pawar(NCP),, Aditya Thackeray(UBT), Amit Thackeray (MNS), Dhanananay Munde(NCP) Rohit Pawar (NCP-SP),Yugendra Pawar (NCP-SP), Vijay Wadettiwar(Cong), Prithviraj Chavan (Cong) and Dilip Valse Patil (NCP-AP).
The polling started at a slow pace in the opening hour, but turned brisk as the closing time approached.
According to sources in the Election Commission, the highest 76.25 percent voting was registered in Kolhapur district, while the lowest 52.07 per cent was reported from the Mumbai City district.
District-wise voting percentage in the state is as follows:
Ahmednagar – 71.73 percent, Akola – 64.98 percent, Amravati – 65.57 percent, Aurangabad- 68.89 percent, Beed – 67.79 percent,Bhandara – 69.42 percent, Buldhana – 70.32 percent,Chandrapur- 71.27 percent,
Dhule – 64.70 percent,Gadchiroli – 73.68 percent, Gondia – 69.53 percent,
Hingoli – 71.10 percent,Jalgaon – 64.42 percent,Jalna – 72.30 percent,
Kolhapur – 76.25 percent,Latur – 66.92 percent,Mumbai City- 52.07 percent,
Mumbai suburbs -55.77 percent, Nagpur – 60.49 percent,Nanded – 64.92 percent,Nandurbar- 69.15 percent,Nashik – 67.57 percent, Osmanabad – 64.27 percent,Palghar – 65.95 percent,Parbhani – 70.38 percent,Pune – 61.05 percent,Raigad – 67.23 percent,Ratnagiri – 64.55 percent,Sangli – 71.89 percent,Satara – 71.71 percent,Sindhudurg – 68.40 percent,Solapur – 67.36 percent,Thane – 56.05 percent,Wardha – 68.30 percent,Washim – 66.01 percent and Yavatmal – 69.02 percent, the statement added.
Over 58 percent of the total 9.70 crore plus voters exercised their democratic rights in the single phase Maharashtra Assembly election till 5 pm.
Final polling percentage will be known later in the day, which will be declared by respective constituencies after keeping all EVM machines in strong rooms.
The counting of votes will be held on November 23.
