Uttarakhand Assembly Elections 2017: 68 per cent voting till 5 pm

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Highlights:

5:45 pm: 68 per cent voting till 5 pm

3:54 pm: 53 per cent voter turnout recorded till 3 pm.

3:15 pm: 40 per cent voting till 1 PM.

2:17 pm: Election Commission clarifies on voting percentage, Uttarakhand voting percentage till 1 pm is 39 per cent.

2:10 pm: 30.12 per cent voter turnout till 1 pm in Uttarakhand.

Correction: 30.12% voting in #Uttarakhand till 1 pm pic.twitter.com/Csdq9ahEmn

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

12:27 pm: CM Harish Rawat casts his vote at booth no 45 in Dehradun’s Dharampur.

12:08 pm: 22 per cent voter turnout recorded in Uttarakhand till 11 am.

22% voter turnout recorded in Uttarakhand till 11 AM. pic.twitter.com/GQrKi4IptR

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

11:33 am: Polling underway at booth no 108 in Haldwani. Congress’ Indira Hridayesh, BSP’s S Ahmad and BJP’s JPS Rautela contesting from there.

#UttarakhandElection2017-Polling underway at booth no 108 in Haldwani; Cong’s Indira Hridayesh, BSP’s S Ahmad & BJP’s JPS Rautela contesting pic.twitter.com/zD1vBY710T

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

10:51 am: Baba Ramdev casts his vote at polling booth number- 106 in Haridwar, says ‘Modiji poori pramanikta se apna rajdharm nibha rahe hain’.

#Uttarakhand: Baba Ramdev casts his vote at polling booth no.106 in Haridwar,says ‘Modiji poori pramanikta se apna rajdharm nibha rahe hain’ pic.twitter.com/SV3nj5lAxV

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

10:24 am: Cong’s Indira Hridayesh casts her vote at booth no 17 in Haldwani. She’s contesting against BSP’s SAhmad and BJP’s JPS Rautela.

9:49 am: Chief Electoral Officer Radha Raturi casts her vote at Government Girls Inter College in Dehradun’s Kishanpur.

(Source: ANI)

9:25 am: 6 per cent polling percentage recorded in the first hour of the Uttarakhand polls.

#UttarakhandElection2017: 6% polling percentage recorded in the first hour of the Uttarakhand polls. pic.twitter.com/O0xIStQHC1

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

9:22 am: Polling underway at booth no 8 in Srinagar. BSP’s Ganesh Prasad, BJP’s Dr DS Rawat and INC’s Ganesh Godiyal are contesting from here.

9:15 am: BJP’s Uttarakhand president Ajay Bhatt casts his vote at polling booth number-130 in Ranikhet.

(Source: ANI)

8:29 am: People show their inked finger after casting their vote at a polling booth in Dehradun.

8:14 am: People queue up to cast their vote in Dehradun’s Hathi Barkala.

(Source: ANI)

8:01 am: Voting for 69 of a total of 70 assembly seats in Uttarakhand barring Karnaprayag begins.

6:35 am:  Voting in the Karnaprayag seat remains postponed, to be held on March 9 as the BSP candidate Kuldeep Kanvasi was killed in a road accident.

6:30 am: 69 of a total of 70 assembly seats barring Karnaprayag to go to polls in the single phase assembly elections in Uttarakhand today.

#TopStory 69 of a total of 70 assembly seats barring Karnaprayag to go to polls in the single phase assembly elections in Uttarakhand today pic.twitter.com/r7Zhf1ZbTP

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017