About 22 per cent voting was witnessed till 11 am in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on Thursday. The voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. Around 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase.

The prominent faces among the 676 candidates contesting on 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. 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.