Over 2 crore voters decided the electoral fate of 586 candidates in the fray today in the second phase of the election to 55 assembly seats in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh.
Of the estimated 2.02 crore eligible voters, there are 1.08 crore male, 94 lakh female, and 1,269 third gender voters.In the second phase, 23,404 polling places and 12,544 polling stations were set up. Voting has ended in UP across nine districts.
Voting started at 7 am and continued till 6 pm across 55 Assembly constituencies of Amroha, Budaun, Bareilly, Bijnor, Moradabad, Rampur, Saharanpur, Sambhal and Shahjahanpur in the western part of the politically crucial state.
- BBadaun saw 56.83 per cent polling, Moradabad 64.56 per cent, Rampur 62.31 per cent, and Sambhal 56.88 per cent.
- Amroha district registered 66.15 per cent, Bareilly 58.82 per cent, Bijnor 62.11 per cent polling.
- The highest voting was in Saharanpur, at 67.52 per cent, and the lowest in Shahjahanpur at 55.20 per cent.
