Erode (East) bypoll 2025: Voter turnout of 72% recorded
Voting for the bypoll for the Erode East Assembly constituency concluded on Wednesday peacefully and the voter turnout is expected to cross at least 72 per cent, election authorities said.
People turned up enthusiastically at the polling stations to cast their votes in the bypoll to the Erode East segment and those who were in the queue at the closing time were issued tokens and allowed to vote, they said.
The polling was held from 7 am to 6 pm and during afternoon the voting was sluggish.
The allegation of a woman voter that someone impersonated her and hence, she could not vote and the allegations and counter-allegations of the ruling DMK and Naam Tamizhar Katchi caught attention, and they briefly resorted to road roko, leading to anxious moments.
District Collector and District Election Officer, Raja Gopal Sunkara said polling was over in all the 237 polling booths and dispatch of EVMs to the counting centre –Government College of Engineering– was on GPS-enabled vehicles.
Officials said that the voting percentage is ’72 per cent’ adding, however, it is subject to further confirmation.
Three EVMs were used as 46 candidates, including 44 independents, are in the fray and the contest appears to be only between the ruling DMK’s VC Chandirakumar and Tamil nationalist party, Naam Tamizhar Katchi’s (NTK) M K Seethalakshmi.