Byelections Voting 2022 LIVE Updates: 65.28% Turnout In Padampur, 26.32% In Rampur Till 3 PM
By-elections Voting Live Updates: Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in UP, Padampur in Odisha, Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh, Kurhani in Bihar, and Sadarshahar in Rajasthan are assembly seats up for voting.
Voter turnout of 48% was recorded in Kurhani (Bihar) at 3 PM while 65.28% was recorded in Padampur (Odisha), 54.95% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 26.32% in Rampur (UP), 44.13% in Manipuri (UP) 40.20% in Khatauli and 64.86% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh), as per data shared by the Election Commission.
Voter turnout of 37% was recorded in Kurhani (Bihar) at 1 PM while 46.96% was recorded in Padampur (Odisha), 36.68% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 19.01% in Rampur (UP), 33.20% in Khatauli and 50.83% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh), as per data shared by the Election Commission.
Highest voter turnout was recorded in Chhattisgarh's Bhanupratappur at 31.27 per cent while Rampur recorded the lowest voter turnout at 11.30 per cent at 11 am, as per the latest data shared by Election Commission.
24% voter turnout was recorded in Kurhani (Bihar), 29.73% in Padampur (Odisha), and 19.87% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), and 20.70% in Khatauli.
Polling is underway at Rajasthan's Sardarshahar Assembly constituency where bypolls are taking place after the demise of Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma following a prolonged illness.
The Congress has fielded the late Sharma's son Anil Kumar while former MLA Ashok Kumar is the BJP candidate.
11% voter turnout in Kurhani (Bihar), 8.50% in Padampur (Odisha), 5.27% in Sardashahar (Rajasthan), 3.97% in Rampur (UP), 6.90% in Khatauli and 9.89% in Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh) recorded till 9 am, as per ECI.
As per the data shared by Election Commission amid ongoing bypolls in seven seats across five states,11 per cent voter turnout was recorded in Bihar's Kurhani and 3.97 per cent was recorded in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur.
8.50 per cent in Odisha's Padampur, 5.27 per cent in Rajasthan's Sardashahar, 6.90 per cent in Khatauli and 9.89 per cent in Chhattisgarh's Bhanupratappur voter turnout was recorded till 9 am.
Polling was underway in Odisha's Padampur Assembly seat where bypoll was necessitated by the death of Biju Janata Dal legislator Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha.
The BJD has nominated from the seat the deceased MLA's daughter, Barsha, who is set to take on BJP’s Pradip Purohit, a former MLA, and Congress candidate and three-time legislator Satya Bhusan Sahu, among others.
As polling is underway at seven seats, one Lok Sabha and six Assembly seats, in seven districts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged voters to turnout in large numbers to vote. The bypolls coincide with the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections 2022.
Nine candidates are up for contest on Rajasthan's Sardarshahar Assembly seat where bypoll is taking place after the demise of sitting Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma. Late Sharma's son, Anil Kumar has been fielded from Congress against former MLA Ashok Kumar from BJP.
Congress candidate from Chhattisgarh's Bhanupratappur constituency, Savitri Mandavi cast her vote.
"Atmosphere is in favour of Congress because our Govt has set standards of development. Looking at those works, people are voting for us," she said while speaking to news agency ANI.
Voting for by-elections for Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and six assembly seats in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh begins.
Background
By-elections Voting 2022 Live: Hello and welcome to the ABP Live blog, where you can discover all the latest news from the polling battlegrounds today. Voting is being held on Monday, December 5, for bypolls to six assembly seats in five states and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Bypolls to six assembly seats in five states are being held alongside the Gujarat assembly polls phase 2.
Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, Padampur in Odisha, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan, Kurhani in Bihar and Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh are the assembly seats where bypolls are being held.
Apart from the seats in Uttar Pradesh, here’s a look at the assembly constituencies going for byelections:
SARDARSHAHAR
The Sardarshahar Assembly seat in Rajasthan fell vacant after Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma passed away in October at the age of 77. The Congress’s replacement for Bhanwar Lal Sharma is his son Anil Kumar who will go up against the BJP’s Ashok Kumar, a former MLA.
The bypoll has come just a day after Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered its Rajasthan leg, with the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party threatening to disrupt it over the Sikar shootout.
Apart from the Congress and the BJP’s candidates, eight contestants are vying for the seat. They are Lalchand (Rashtriya Loktantrik Party), Sanwarmal Meghwal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Parmana Ram of Indian People’s Green Party and independents Subhash Chandra, Umesh Sahu, Prem Singh, Vijay Pal Singh Sheoran, and Surendra Singh Rajpurohit.
PADAMPUR
The death of BJD legislator Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha in October at the age of 65 necessitated the Padampur seat bypoll in Odisha. The bypoll comes right after the BJD's loss to BJP in the Dhamnagar bypoll for the first time since 2009.
BHANUPRATAPPUR
Chhattisgarh’s Bhanupratappur constituency, a seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes in the Maoist-hit Kanker district, is also going for a bypoll on Monday. The seat was left vacant when Congress MLA and deputy speaker of the assembly Manoj Singh Mandavi passed away in November.
Seven candidates have submitted nominations to contest the bypoll. The Congress has fielded Mandavi’s widow Savitri and the BJP has pitted former MLA Brahmanand Netam against her.
KURHANI
Bihar, too, will host a bypoll in the Kurhani assembly constituency, which was left vacant after the disqualification of RJD MLA Anil Kumar Sahani in October. Sahani was awarded a three-year jail term for fraudulently withdrawing funds during his stint as a Rajya Sabha Member (2010-12 and 2012-18).
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