The total voter turnout during the simultaneous elections to 175 Assembly and 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh may touch 81% as the voters exercised their franchise until 2 a.m. on the intervening nights of May 13 and May 14, Chief Electoral Officer Mukesh Kumar Meena has said.
Though the voting was scheduled to conclude at 6 p.m. on May 13 (Monday) the voters who were waiting in the queue lines at polling booths by that time were allowed to exercise their franchise.
As per the data available by 7.30 p.m. on May 14, the total polling percentage was estimated to be 79.4% including 1.2% voter turnout recorded during the voting through postal ballot. The poll percentage may go up to 81 after all the data gathered from across the State are included,” Mr. Meena said on May 14 (Tuesday).
