Madhya Pradesh sees 71.16 pc polling, voter turn out 68.15 pc in Chhattisgarh

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Madhya Pradesh recorded a voting percentage of 71.16 per cent and Chhattisgarh saw a voter turnout of 68.15 per cent AT 5 PM on the 70 seats that went to the polls in the second phase of the election in the state, according to the latest data from Election Commission.

Madhya Pradesh had seen 60.52 per cent voter turn-out till 3 pm in all the 230 assembly seats that went to the polls on Friday. The voter turnout in the state was 45.40 per cent till 1 pm.

Voting for 230 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh began at 7 am on Friday.

The election will decide the electoral fates of over 2,500 candidates.

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• Nearly 5.59 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise. It includes 2.87 crore male and 2.71 crore women voters. There are over 5,000 booths run by women and 183 polling stations run by the disabled, officials said.
  
  Chhattisgarh has seen 55.31 per cent of voter turnout in the second phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly polls till 3 pm. The turnout in Chhattisgarh was 38.22 per cent till 1 pm.
  
  Chhattisgarh has 90 seats and 20 seats went to the polls on November 7 in the first phase.
  The timing for polling is from 8 am to 5 pm except nine polling booths in the Naxal-affected Bindranawagarh seat in Rajim district, where voting was held from 7 am to 3 pm
  
  For Chhattisgarh, over 18,800