(FE)
Gujarat recorded an average 68.7% turnout in the second phase of voting for 93 seats in the state’s central and northern parts on Thursday. With this, the overall polling in the two-phase election – expected to set the tone for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls – is around 68 per cent, the Election Commission announced.
In 2012, the voter turnout in the second and last phase of polling for 95 seats was 71.85 per cent and 70.75% overall for all the 182 seats. While the average phase II voter turnout was less than the last assembly election, it was still higher than the turn out in 2007 and 2002, when the voting percentage was recorded as 59.77% and 61.54 %.In the regions that went to polls on Thursday, the BJP had won 52, Congress 39 and NCP and independent one each.
