Altogether 75 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections on Wednesday. In the 2013 Assembly elections, 72.13 per cent turnout was recorded, an election official said. Complaints of faulty Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVVPAT) machines marred the polling on Wednesday.

Poll officials said 1,145 EVMs and 1,545 VVPATs were replaced after complaints of technical snags. Polling was held between 8 am and 5 pm in 227 seats, while in three Assembly segments — Lanji, Paraswada and Baihar — in Maoist-affected Balaghat district, the voting time was between 7 am to 3 pm, state Chief Electoral Officer V L Kantha Rao said.