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“I wish to congratulate the folks that despite all the difficulties they came to vote in such immense numbers. Right here’s a hilly explain and some are snowbound areas and despite all this, they came to solid their votes and created history. Nowhere became once the polling late,” acknowledged J&K Chief Election Officer PK Pole.
The Baramulla parliamentary constituency, which is one among the 49 seats up for grabs within the fifth spherical of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, saw an estimated 59% voter turnout, in step with Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Election Officer, PK Pole.
“I wish to congratulate the folks that despite all the difficulties they came to vote in such immense numbers. Right here’s a hilly explain and some are snowbound areas and despite all this, they came to solid their votes and created history. Nowhere became once the polling late,” acknowledged J&K Chief Election Officer PK Pole.
In the final elections of 1984, there became once the ideal turnout within the Baramulla seat’s forty-year existence, at 61.09 per cent.
At 8 pm, the Election Commission of India’s voter turnout app indicated that 54.6% of voters had solid ballots in Baramulla. Right here’s the ideal voter turnout in 35 years, dating encourage to 1989, when the seat had most effective 5% turnout. At 11.Forty five pm on Monday, the poll panel will give an updated amount, adopted by closing statistics within the upcoming days.
Rather than Srinagar and Anantnag-Rajouri, Baramulla is one among the three constituencies within the Kashmir division of J&K where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did no longer discipline any candidates. Meeting segments from the districts of Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora, and Budgam build up this seat.
The main candidates for the explain are Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Convention (JKPC) chief Sajjad Lone and worn chief minister of J&K and chief of the Nationwide Convention (NC), Omar Abdullah. Candidates Fayaz Ahmad Mir of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Abdul Rashid Sheikh, moreover recognized as Engineer Rashid, are the other contenders.
On Can also 13, Srinagar solid its votes within the fourth spherical of voting, and on Can also 25, Anantnag-Rajouri will care for its sixth allotment of voting. In Srinagar, the Can also 13 election saw a document 38 per cent of voters solid ballots. This became once the constituency’s very best voting percentage since 41% of voters solid ballots within the final elections of 1996.
(With inputs from agencies)
