More than 55% voting was recorded in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election on Thursday.
The prominent faces among the 676 candidates for 57 seats spread across 10 districts in this phase included Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and State Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj.
According to tentative figures updated at 7 p.m., 55.79% polling was recorded. In the 2017 Assembly election, the turnout was 56.47% in these 57 seats. The final tally will be released by the poll authorities later, officials said. With this, voting for 349 of the total 403 assembly seats has been completed. The final phase of polling in the remaining 54 seats will be held on March 7. Around 2.15 crore people were eligible to vote in this phase. The voting started at 7 a.m. and continued till 6 p.m. The districts where polling was held on Thursday were Ambedkarnagar, Balrampur, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia. In the 2017 election, the BJP had won 46 of the 57 seats. Additional Chief Electoral Officer (ACEO) B.D.R. Tiwari said that polling was held peacefully in the State.
