Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Nearly 54 per cent of voters turned out in Aurangabad Central Assembly Constituency (107) of the district by 5 pm on Wednesday.
It may be noted that there are nine Constituencies in the district. This Constituency is considered important among all from a political point of view. This time around, there are 24 candidates of the different parties in the fray. The number of voters is 3.66 lakh. A total of 1,99,187 (53.98) turned out at 320 polling booths today. Prominent candidates Pradeep Jaiswal (Shinde Sena and Mahayuti), Balasaheb Thorat (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena), Nasser Siddiqui (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen), and Javed Qureshi (Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi).
When the voting commenced at 7 am, there were long queues at some booths while other polling booths had a few voters due to cold and non-receiving polling chits in different colonies. Complaints of malfunction in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were reported in some places. The staff immediately took note of it and replaced the EVMs.
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Voting up to 5 pm
The genderwise turnout of voters in the Constituency by 5 pm is as follows
Male voters—1,04647
Female voters--94,536
Other-------------04
Total voters-----1,99,187
Voting pc-------53.98
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Voting percentage after every two hours
Time-----------voting pc
Up to 9 am----7.22
Upto 11 am--17.72
Upto 1 pm---29.85
Upto 3 pm---41.31
Upto 5 pm—53.98 pc