Elections 2019 Phase 3 HIGHLIGHTS: EVM snag, violence hit voting; overall voter turnout 65%

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Haveri: In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Udasi Shivakumar Channabasappa from Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won the elections by a margin of 87571 votes. The polling / voting in Haveri constituency in the 2019 General elections took place in Phase 3 on 23 April. The major contest is between Bharatiya Janata Party#s ShivkumarChanabasappaUdasi and Congress Party#s D.r patil

Haveri 2014 Lok Sabha Polls

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Bharatiya Janata Party won 17 out of the 28 parliamentary seat with 43 percent vote share while the Indian National Congress managed to win just 9 seats with a 40.8 percent vote share.

Voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Haveri Lok Sabha Lok Sabha constituency. The total voter turnout was 71.59% Lok Sabha percent with 73.75% Lok Sabha percent male voters turning out to cast their votes. Meanwhile, 69.27% Lok Sabha percent of the women voters cast their votes and 3806 Lok Sabha voters pressed on the NOTA

Out of the 19 Lok Sabha candidates who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Haveri, 17 had to deposit their security. The voters gave their mandate in favour of Udasi Shivakumar Channabasappa of the Bharatiya Janta Party as he defeated Saleem Ahmed by a margin of 87571 votes.

Here are the past results of the Lok Sabha polls in Haveri constituency in Karnataka

• 2009 Lok Sabha Elections: In 15th Lok Sabha election, Bharatiya Janta Party candidate had defeated Indian National Congress candidate by a margin of 87920 votes BJP candidate Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi had got 430293 while INC got Saleem Ahamed votes.

19:19 PM (IST)  •  23 Apr 2019

Overall voting percentage in various states for Phae 3 voting are as following: Assam - 78.29%; Bihar - 59.97%; Goa - 71.09%; Gujarat - 60.21%; Jammu & Kashmir - 12.86%; Karnataka - 64.14%; Kerala - 70.21%; Maharashtra - 56.57%; Odisha - 58.18%; Tripura - 78.52%; Utar Pradesh - 57.74%; West Bengal - 79.36; Chhattisgarh - 65.91%; Dadra & Nagar Haveli - 71.43%; Daman & Diu - 65.34%.

19:05 PM (IST)  •  23 Apr 2019

Watch LIVE: Press conference by Election Commission #IndiaElections2019 #GeneralElections2019 https://t.co/SVX0kClI2I

— PIB India (@PIB_India) April 23, 2019

18:35 PM (IST)  •  23 Apr 2019

Today after casting his vote, PM took out a long procession & delivered a speech. There has never been such a clear violation of MCC, he is a habitual offender. We appealed to EC to bar him from campaigning for 48-72 hours: Abhishek Manu Singhvi after a Congress delegation met EC.

18:22 PM (IST)  •  23 Apr 2019

Less than five per cent of the 5.30 lakh electorate of Anantnag district in the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency of Jammu and Kashmir exercised their franchise in the first four hours of polling Tuesday.

17:54 PM (IST)  •  23 Apr 2019

Delhi: BJP's Gautam Gambhir files his nomination for the East Delhi parliamentary constituency. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/mGsVXToS8w

— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019