Maharashtra Record 7.31%voting till 10:30 am, Chavan Confident for victory

Assembly elections live:Maharashtra Record 7.31%voting till 10:30 am, Chavan Confident for victory

11:00 am: Brisk polling in Maharashtra, where 7.31 per cent of the over 8.35 crore voters exercised their franchise till 9 am. The estimated polling in some districts was: Aurangabad 10 per cent, Beed 9, Solapur 8, Kolhapur 10, Hingoli 8.5, Osmanabad 9, Nashik 7, and Parbhani 7.5 per cent.

10:48 Maharashtra records 7.31% voing till 9am, Mumbai and Thane register low turnout of 5.5%

10:25 am: Till 9 am Mumbai records 7 percent voter turnout.

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10:22 am: Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan addresses media says, “I am confident that people will vote for Congress in these elections for the work done in last 15 years.”

10:27 am: In Maharashtra, 4,119 candidates are in the electoral fray, including 276 women in the state with 8.35 crore voters eligible to exercise their right to franchis

10:19 am: In first few hours, Maharashtra's Bhandara districts records 5% voting, Pune 8%, Vardha 3%, Gondia 4%, Sangli 8%, Aurangabad 10% and Usmanabad 8.5%.
9:53 am: Voting picks up in Maharashtara, Nanded records 11 per cent voter turnout, Hingoli 7 per cent, Akola 6 per cent, Sangali 9 per cent, Solapur 8 per cent, Nagpur 6 per cent and Pune 8.02 per cent.