Newskarnataka – Bangalore
Bangalore: Voting has picked up across the state for the Lok Sabha elections. Here are some of the highlights of the day.
Karnataka state’s polling highlights as per the day’s timeline:
9:00 AM: 6.62 % | 11:00 AM: 18.82 % | 1:00 PM: 33.13 % | 3.00 PM: 46.17 % | 5:00 PM: 58.12 % | 6:00 PM: %|
Percentage wise records of varied regions of Karnataka:
- Chikkaballapur records 64.66 %
- Udupi-Chikkmagalur 65.98 %
- Kolar 63.21 %
- Bagalkot 57.32 %
- Belgaum 58.06 %
- Bijapur 49.49 %
- Gulbarga 45.7 %
- Raichur 49.87 %
- Bidar 54.06 %
- Koppal 58.11 %
- Bellary 64.55 %
- Dharwad 60.68 %
- Uttar Kannada 60.32 %
- Tumkur 64.72 %
- Devanagere 62.06 %
- Shimoga 63.87 %
- Hassan 66.05 %
- DaKshin Kannada 69.41 %
- Chitradurga 46.97 %
- Mandya 62.27 %
- Mysore 59.87 %
- Bangalore Rural 61.29 %; North 48.87 %; Central 51.47 %; South 51.32 %
- Afternoon 3 p.m.: Mysore – Coorg records 52.5 per cent voting
- Afternoon 2:30 p.m.: Again a brisk voting in Karkala with 53.32 percent, Udupi 49.41 percent, Kundapur 48.25 percent, kapu 47.93, Byndoor 42.99.
- In Bidar a 108 year old woman exercised her franchise
- In Bellary police reportedly assaulted media men
- In Sakleshpur, a voter vomited right on the Electronic Voting Machine
- An election staff died of cardiac arrest in Belgaum
- In Kengeri, a voter named Nanjundappa (65) succumbed to heart attack
- In Mangalore, an 80 year old woman named Gangamma died after exercising her franchise at a polling booth at Moodushedde
- Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency recorded 25 per cent voting where Karkala is leading with 31 per cent; Kundapur recorded 24 per cent; Udupi 22 per cent; Kaup 28 per cent and Byndoor 21 per cent. The records mentioned are till morning 11:30 a.m.
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