The total voter turnout for Phase 6 of the Lok Sabha elections is 63.3%, reported news agency PTI. Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar and Haryana all voted in the sixth phase of the elections. Polling was held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, eight seats each in West Bengal, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, seven in Delhi and four in Jharkhand today.
59.1% total voter turnout was recorded in Delhi, while Bihar and Haryana recorded 59.4% and 64% total voter turnout respectively. Jharkhand registered 65.2% total voter turnout and Madhya Pradesh recorded 60.7% total turnout. Uttar Pradesh recorded 54% voter turnout while West Bengal saw 80.2% turnout till 3 PM.
Several high-profile political leaders voted today for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections. President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi all voted in this phase of the elections. Cricketer Virat Kohli voted in this phase of the elections as well. In Madhya Pradesh, where voting in 8 constituencies is being held, BJP's Pragya Thakur and Congress's Jyotiraditya Scindia also cast their votes.
Around 979 candidates contested this phase, while in Delhi, where people from all the seven constituencies voted today, the heads of the state unit of the BJP, Congress and AAP are contesting each other in the same seat.
BJP candidate from West Bengal's Ghatal constituency, also a former IPS officer and former trusted lieutenant of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was attacked, heckled and pushed to the ground at a polling station in Keshpur village, 145 km from Bengal capital Kolkata.
A Trinamool Congress worker was injured after he was hit by a bullet fired by the bodyguard of Ms Ghosh. In Jhargram's Garbeta, several Trinamool Congress and BJP workers were also injured in clashes. BJP claims Trinamool Congress was trying to capture a booth.
Poll violence has occurred in West Bengal in the previous five phases as well.
