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Lok Sabha elections 2024 Phase 2: Scorching heatwave casts shadow on turnout
Updated On: 27 April, 2024 07:38 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Heat wave is believed to have contributed towards several voters not turning up at polling stations in both the phases
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Voters wait in a queue at a polling station. Pic/PTi
Voter turnout of 60.96 per cent was recorded till 7 pm in phase two of the Lok Sabha elections held on Friday across 88 constituencies spread in 13 states, the Election Commission said. The poll panel described the voting as “peaceful”.
In the second phase of Lok Sabha elections of 2019 held in 95 constituencies across 13 states, the turnout was much higher at 67.6 per cent.
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