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Chief Electoral Officer Anuj Kumar Bishnoi said there was an average 44 per cent polling,“but it may increase”. The polling remained peaceful and incident-free,Bishnoi told reporters.

Chief Minister Mayawati was among the early voters. She came around 7.15 am to cast her vote at Lucknow Montessori School. She was accompanied by BSP general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra and the party’s Lucknow candidate Akhilesh Das.

The BJP national president,Rajnath Singh,cast his vote at a polling booth in the office of the PWD near Raj Bhavan.

Bishnoi said there were reports of glitches in EVMs at few places. “The problems in the EVM machines were soon removed,” he added. The CEO office also received reports about poll boycott at a few booths in different districts like Fatehpur,Lucknow,Mohanlalganj,Hamirpur,Kanpur Dehat and Hardoi.

The record available in the CEO’s office shows 35 per cent polling in Lucknow is in keeping with the past trend. In the Assembly elections 2007,the city had witnessed about 31 per cent poling,while the polling in Lok Sabha elections 2004 was 35.41 per cent.

Turnout
* Hardoi: 40 per cent
* Misrikh: 40 per cent
* Unnao: 45 per cent
* Mohanlalganj: 43.4 per cent
* Lucknow: 34.3 per cent
* Rae Bareli: 46 per cent
* Kanpur: 39 per cent
* Akbarpur: 40 per cent
* Jalaun: 47 per cent
* Jhansi: 51 per cent
* Hamirpur: 4 per cent
* Fatehpur: 43 per cent
* Barabanki: 46 per cent
* Behraich: 40 per cent