West Bengal registers record voter turnout of 92.7% in first phase of Assembly Elections
West Bengal registered a record voter turnout of 92.72 per cent in the first phase of assembly polls yesterday.
In the first phase, 152 constituencies in West Bengal went to polls, while voting for the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly was held in one go.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said the voter turnout in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly polls was the state’s “highest-ever percentage since Independence”.
Terming the massive voter turnout in Bengal “an overwhelming mandate for change”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that May 4, when votes will be counted, would mark the “expiry” of the “TMC’s 15-year-old syndicate system and maha jungle raj” in West Bengal.
The second phase for the remaining 142 of 294 seats in West Bengal will be held on April 29. The counting for all four states and one Union Territory, Keralam, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, will be on May 4.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is camping in West Bengal, visited the BJP’s election control room at Salt Lake during polling hours and reviewed the situation with party leaders.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Election Commissioners Dr. S.S. Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi kept a close watch on the polling through live webcasting, which was ensured in all the Polling Stations in both the states.