# Voting in third phase of Lok Sabha Elections officially ended at 5 pm although the exercise is underway in many polling booths where people are still in queues to exercise their franchise.
# Estimated voting percentage at 5 pm
(State Election Commission Figures)
Guwahati – 65.28%; Barpeta – 72.47%; Dhubri – 78.94%; Kokrajhar -70.31%.
Average Turnout – 71.47%.
Unofficial sources, however, have put the average turnout in the four counstituencies at over 75% till 5 pm.
# Estimated voting percentage at 2 pm
Guwahati – 47%; Barpeta – 50%; Dhubri – 53%; Kokrajhar – 46%.
Average Turnout – 49%.
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# Estimated Voting percentage at 12 noon
Guwahati – 40%; Barpeta – 44%; Dhubri – 43%; Kokrajhar – 37%. Average Turnout – 41%
# BREAKING | Bollywood actor Sunny Deol joins BJP at the party’s headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman & Piyush Goyal. Sunny Deol likely to contest from Gurdaspur constituency in Punjab.
# Actor Sunny Deol arrives at BJP office in New Delhi. He will be joining the party shortly.
# Social activist & Gandhian, Anna Hazare, casts his vote at Ralegan Siddhi in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra.
# Voting turnout in the four constituencies of Assam at 11 am:
Guwahati: 30%, Barpeta: 38%, Dhubri: 35% & Kokrajhar: 33% while the estimated averege turnout has been 34%.
# Reports of EVM malfunctioning at various places have also come in. The glitches were addressed at many polling centres.
# Assam Minister Pramila Rani Brahma, who is the BPF candidate for Kokrajhar constituency, casts vote at a voting centre at Kokrajhar town.
# Prime Minister Modi displays his inked finger after casting his vote in Ahmedabad.
# Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Ranip in Ahmedabad. He will cast his vote shortly. He came to the polling booth in an open jeep, waving to the massive crowd that had gathered outside the polling booth to catch a glimpse of the prime minister.
# Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets his mother at her residence in Gandhinagar prior to casting his vote in Ahmedabad.
# In Guwahati, BJP and Congress candidates Queen Oja and Bobbeeta Sharma cast their votes early in the morning in Guwahati. Polling under way at brisk pace in the four constituencies of Assam with voting picking up pace with the passage of time.
Voting begins in 117 parliamentary constituencies across the country at 7 am. Polling also got underway in the remaining four constituencies of Assam – Barpeta, Dhubri, Kokrajhar & Guwahati – in this phase. It’s also the last phase of polling in the State.
