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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  West Bengal polls: 78.25% voter turnout in fifth phase
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West Bengal polls: 78.25% voter turnout in fifth phase

The penultimate phase of West Bengal assembly polls in 53 constituencies recorded a voter turnout of 78.25% and polling was peaceful

The fifth phase of West Bengal assembly polls also tests chief minister Mamata Banerjee as her constituency Bhawanipore goes to poll. Photo: AFPPremium
The fifth phase of West Bengal assembly polls also tests chief minister Mamata Banerjee as her constituency Bhawanipore goes to poll. Photo: AFP

New Delhi: The fifth and penultimate phase of West Bengal assembly polls in 53 constituencies on Saturday recorded a voter turnout of 78.25% and polling was peaceful, even as FIRs were registered against two Presiding Officers and a Trinamool Congress candidate for alleged intimidation of voters and for helping a particular party.

EC’s deputy election commissioner and in-charge of West Bengal, Sandeep Saxena told a press conference that, “based on SMS-based information from polling officers, at 5 PM the voter turnout in fifth phase was 78.25 per cent." This is against 82.77% final voting recorded during the 2011 assembly elections in the three districts of Hoogly, Kolkata South district and South 24-Parganas, that went to polls on Saturday.

In 2014 Parliamentary elections, the said area recorded a polling percentage of 80.22%. “Three FIRs have also been registered in an otherwise peaceful polls and 17 arrests have been made so far and more arrests are likely," he said.

An FIR was registered against Sonali Guha, the Trinamool Congress candidate from Satgachhia assembly constituency, for allegedly intimidating voters by instructing her polling agents to shoo away the voters of opposite candidate.

Another FIR was registered against presiding officers in Tarkeshwar and Arambagh, for allegedly helping a particular candidate and party.

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Published: 30 Apr 2016, 09:24 AM IST
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