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The overall polling percentage in the 3rd Phase of India’s 2024 Parliament Elections Tuesday May 07, 2024 was 64.40% amidst the reports that Muslims were forcefully barred from voting in Sambhal.

Wednesday May 8, 2024 3:54 PM, ummid.com News Network

New Delhi: The overall polling percentage in the 3rd Phase of India’s 2024 Parliament Elections Tuesday May 07, 2024 was 64.40% amidst the reports that Muslims were forcefully barred from voting in Sambhal.

“Approximate voter turnout as of 11.40 pm of 3rd phase of General Elections 2024 is 64.40 %”, the Election Commission of India said.

93 seats in 3rd Phase

As many as 93 seats across 11 states went to polls in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 7. Going by 2019 data, the BJP had won 71 of these 93 Lok Sabha seats back then, while the Congress got only 04.

The states that went to polls in the 3rd phase included Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Polling in the 3rd phase was also held for 04 seats in Assam, 05 in Bihar, 07 in Chhattisgarh, 02 each in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Goa, 25 in Gujarat, 14 in Karnataka, 09 in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh and 04 in West Bengal. Surat, which was scheduled to vote in this phase, has already been won uncontested by the BJP after the dubious withdrawal of the Congress candidate.

High profile candidates in the 3rd phase are Amit Shah contesting from Gandhinagar, Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri, Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna, Digvijay Singh from Rajgarh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha, Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar, Pralhad Joshi from Dharwad and Supriya Sule fighting from Baramati.

Assam recorded highest voters turnout 81.61 followed by West Bengal 75.79%, Goa 75.20%, Chattisgarh 71.06% and Karnataka 70.41%, according to ECI.

Polling percentage in Maharashtra was 61.4% whereas in Uttar Pradesh 57.34% exercised their democratic right in the 3rd Phase of seven phase elections in India, the Poll Panel said.

Polling in Uttar Pradesh

The Election Commission of India claimed peaceful voting in the 3rd Phase however reports from Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh claimed that Muslims were barred from voting at some polling booths.

Video clips shared on social media said police personnel using force to thwart voters from a polling booth in Sambhal.

Several videos comes out from Sambhal, uttarpradesh where voter's from Muslim community alleging admins stopping them or threatening them. pic.twitter.com/5muqQwCt01

— Gabbar (@Gabbar0099) May 7, 2024

In a video shared on social media, Samajwadi Party candidate Zia ur Rahman Barq claimed he was thrown out of a polling booth by the state Police.

Alleging that Muslims are being stopped from voting, Samajwadi Party candidate in Badaun Aditya Yadav sat for impromptu dharna and protest.

Incidents of similar problem have also been reported from Fatehpur Sikri and Agra.

Sambhal District Magistrate later refuted the claims that the Muslim voters were stopped from voting.

A video is shared on X with misleading claim about conduct of polling at a PS in UttarPradesh in Phase 3 of #GE2024

In this regard, @DmSambhal had already issued clarification after enquiry. No voter was denied their right to cast vote.Claim made is #false#VerifyBeforeUAmplify https://t.co/GSMxJRklFv pic.twitter.com/301d9DPauw

— Election Commission of India (@ECISVEEP) May 8, 2024

In a statement released on social media platform X, the DM said a large number of voters had crowded the polling booth after voting. The police asked them to leave the polling booth. “Later voters came in queue and exercised their democratic rights”, he said.

In the end Sambhal registered a voter turnout of 62% - the highest in 10 Parliamentary constituencies of Uttar Pradesh where polling was held in the 3rd phase on Tuesday.

Polling for the second phase of the 2024 Parliament Election on 88 seats of the Lok Sabha was held on April 26, 2024 with a voter turnout of 64.2%.

The first phase of the Lok Sabha Polls had covered 102 seats spread across 21 states, with the Election Commission recording a voter turnout of around 64%. The poll percent in the first phase too was lower than what the country had seen in the 2019 elections.

The elections for the 18th Lok Sabha is being held in 07 Phases. Polling for the 3rd Phase will be held on May 07, 2024.

The counting of votes of all the seven phases will be held simultaneously on June 04, 2024.

 

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