More than 55 per cent voting was recorded in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on Thursday. The prominent faces among the 676 candidates for 57 seats spread across 10 districts in this phase include Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj. The voting started at 7 am and continued till 6 pm. Around 2.15 crore people were eligible to vote in this phase.

So far, voting for 292 of the 403 Assembly seats has been completed. The final phase of the elections on the remaining 54 seats will be held on March 7. In the 2017 Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 46 of the 57 seats. There was about 46.70 per cent polling till 3 pm, according to the Election Commission of India’s Turnout app.