Mumbai: Voting started on a peaceful note for 10 Lok Sabha seats spread in Maharashtra's Vidarbha and Marathwada regions in the second phase of elections on Thursday morning.
- The total polling turnout in 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra till 5 pm is recorded 57.20 %Sushilkumar Shinde casts his vote
Voting percentage in the 10 constituencies till 3 pm:
Buldhana - 57.07 %
Akola - 54.32 %
Amravati -55.46 %
Hingoli -60.68 %
Nanded- 60.97 %
Parbhani - 58.33 %
Beed- 58.33 %
Osmanabad- 57.06 %
Latur- 57.88 %
Solapur - 52.02%
Updates:
- Villagers boycott voting in Anandwadi over non-payment of crop insurance
- Voters in Hingoli boycott voting over development
- Voter posts Facebook live during voting in a polling booth in Osmanabad
- Polling booth in Buldhana is being managed by specially-abled staff
- 57.20 % voter turnout in Maharashtra till 5 PM
- Clashes broke between police and voters in Parbhani Lok Sabha Constituency
- Polling temporarily halted at booth number 217 in Solapur's Shastri Nagar due to fault in EVM
- Election Commission Flying Squad seize Rs 11.85 lakh unaccounted cash in Sion area
- Former chief minister Ashok Chavan cast his vote in Shivajinagar
- 105-year-old Kavaibai Kamble along with her family cast her vote in Latur
- 5.25% voter turnout in Maharashtra till 9 AM
- Pregnant woman cast vote in Solapur
- Polling begins in Latur after delayed for an hour
- Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde casts his vote at a polling station in Solapur
The constituencies going to polling are -- Buldhana, Akola, Amravati (SC), Hingoli, Nanded, Parbhani, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur (SC) and Solapur (SC).
The main contests shall be between ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena and Opposition Congress-Nationalist Congress Party, besides the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), a Dalit-Muslim front.
Among the early voters were former Union Home Minister and ex-Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, his wife Ujwala, their legislator daughter Praniti Shinde and other family members who arrived at a polling station to cast exercise their franchise.
