
Braving cold weather, voters on Tuesday lined up at polling stations much before the start of the voting. (Source: Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
Kashmiris stand in queue to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of voting to the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly elections in Sumbal Bandipora district north of Srinagar Tuesday, November, 25, 2014. (Source: Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
Women waiting outside the polling station to cast their votes in Ganderbal. (Source: Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
Long lines of voters stretched around polling booths in Sumbal Bandipora district north of Srinagar. (Source: Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
The five phased voting is scheduled to be held till December 20 with the results expected on December 23. (Source: Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
Security personnel patrolling near polling station in Ganderbal. (Source: Express Photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
Nearly 1900 polling stations have been set-up by the election authorities in these 15 constituencies. (Source: Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
The electorate ignored the boycott call and turned up in large numbers an hour before the scheduled start of polling at 8 AM to exercise their franchise. (Source: Express photo by Shuaib Masoodi)
A security person stands guard outside a polling station during the first phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections in maoist-affected Latehar on Tuesday. (Source: PTI)
Polling for 13 of the 81 Assembly constituencies in Jharkhand, spread over six Maoist-affected districts, began at seven this morning amid tight security. (Source: PTI)
Polling had to be conducted on the field after two bombs were found in the primary school housing booths 170 and 167 of Manika constituency, in Mahuadanr. (Source: Express photo by Deepu Sebastian Edmond)
A total 61.92 per cent votes were cast in the first phase of polls in 13 of the 81 assembly seats in Jharkhand amidst sporadic incidents of damage to EVMs. (Source: Express photo by Deepu Sebastian Edmond)
This is the third assembly election after Jharkhand was carved out from Bihar on November 15, 2000. (Source: Express photo by Deepu Sebastian Edmond)