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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Maharashtra Assembly election 2014 polling % Live updates



New Delhi: 64 percent voters exercise their franchise till 6pm.
Maharashtra recorded only 55% turnout.
4:00 pm: Maharastra Assembly elections: 36 per cent polling in Mumbai till 3 pm
03:24 PM 46% voting in Maharashtra till 3 pm
2:08 pm: Maharashtra Assembly elections: 33 per cent voting till 1 pm, just 27 per cent in Mumbai.
 1:38 pm: Voting on across Haryana and Maharashtra. Both BJP and Congress claim they will Haryana and Maharashtra elections. 11:47 am: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray casts his vote along with son Aditya Thackeray.11:46 am: Around 17 per cent people exercise their franchise in Maharashtra till 11 am.
11:43 am: Around 15.5 per cent polling recorded in Mumbai till 11 am.

11:04 am: Cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar appeals to voters to exercise their franchise. He said, "every individual should vote. It is important for the nation."
11:00 am: In Maharashtra, Among Bollywood personalities who went to polling booths in Mumbai early today were actress Rekha, Jaya Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Amol Palekar and actor Atul Kulkarni. Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar also cast his vote.

10:59 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%
10:30 am: Nearly 7 per cent turnout was recorded till 10 AM in Haryana, according to the state's Chief Electoral Officer, Shrikant Walgad.
10:25 am: Till 9 am Mumbai records 7 percent voter turnout.
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

10:23 per cent: Seven per cent voting recorded in Mumbai till 9 am.

10:22 am: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari is confident that the BJP will come to power in Maharashtra. He said, " BJP government will come and bring lot of progress in Maharashtra."

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%.
10:16 am: Chavan says, "I am confident that people of Maharashtra will support Congress and we will form a majority government."
10:14 am: NCP leader Supriya Sule casts her vote in Baramati.
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.
9:20 am: Mumbai, which saw less voters during the Lok Sabha elections, is showing similar numbers. Some polling booths are seeing no queues yet.


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