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With Jharkhand and Jammu & Kashmir entering the fifth and final phase polling for 16 Assembly seats, 20 Assembly seats respectively on Saturday, the fate of heavyweights including Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, J&K Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand will be decided in this phase.
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Polling began at 7 AM and ends at 3 PM in all the 16 constituencies in Jharkhand. And it began at 8 AM in J&K.
Here are the live updates
8.35 AM: https://twitter.com/deepusebastian/status/546139281018736640
9.07 AM: Voting in J&K began on a brisk note despite the severe cold.
9.08 AM: At many places, people has already started forming queues before the polling began at 8 am.
9.10 AM: 18.29 lakh voters will decide the fate of 213 candidates in the poll fray including Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, besides ministers Raman Bhalla, Sham Lal Sharma, Ajay Sadhotra and Dr Manohar Lal Sharma.
9.10 AM: Two former ministers, Shabir Ahmed Khan and Babu Singh, besides two ex-MPs Lal Singh and Choudhary Talib Hussain are also among the contestants whose fate will be decided by the electorate.
9.11 AM: In these 20 constituencies during the the 2008 assembly polls, BJP had won at 10 places, Congress (five), National Conference (two), PDP (one) and independents (two).
10.30 AM: Average voter turnout between 7-9 AM at 14.27℅. CM Hemant Soren’s constituency among two lowest, at 11℅.
11.29 AM: https://twitter.com/deepusebastian/status/546182971196063744
11.30 AM: Overall polling percentage till 10 AM in J&K Elections Phase-5th: 12.09 %.
12.00 PM: The constituency-wise voting percentage till 9 AM was 15 per cent at Rajmahal, 17 per cent at Borio, 15 per cent at Barhait, 14 per cent at Littipara, 16 per cent at Pakur, 15 per cent at Maheshpur and 15 per cent at Shikaripara, an Election Commission release said.
12.16 PM: At Nala it was 11 per cent, at Jamtara 13, Dumka 11, Jama 14, Jarmundi 12, Sarath 14.25, Poreyahat 14.6, Godda 15 and Mahagama 15.2 per cent, the release said.
12. 17 PM: A report from Pakur said voters of booth number 134 in Litipara constituency did not turn up in protest against lack of basic amenities.
Voting, however, resumed after polling and administrative officials convinced them that their demands would be looked into.
12.49 PM: Overall polling percentage till 12 pm in J&K Elections Phase-5th : 29.75 % .
1.55 PM: 53.86% turnout at 1 PM in Jharkhand. Hemant Soren’s constituency Dumka, which includes largest town in Phase 5, sluggish 43%.
3.00 PM: Polling ends in Jharkhand
