39.6% voters in Baramulla, 65% electors in Ladakh , Parliamentary Constituencies exercise their franchise

SRINAGAR, MAY 07 (KMW): 39.6% of the electors of 01-Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency and 65% of electors of 04-Ladakh Parliamentary Constituency cast their votes today.
Disclosing this at a press conference here today, the Chief Electoral Officer, Mr. Umang Narula said that 39.6% of electors exercised their franchise in 01-Baramulla Parliamentary Constituency comprising 63.19% in Kupwara, 25.04% in Baramulla and 35.65% in Bandipora districts. He said 64% votes were cast in Leh and 65.8% in Kargil districts of 04-Ladakh Parliamentary Constituency adding that the exact figures of the polling percentage will be available only after details are received from various far flung areas.
Mr. Narula said that as many as 2147 polling stations were set up across both the Constituencies at 1878 different locations which included 132 critical polling stations, 1091 hypersensitive and 455 sensitive ones. He also said that web casting facility was available in 55 polling booths, besides 20 digital as well as 92 video cameras were installed for covering the poll process in these Constituencies.
The Chief Electoral Officer said that 4 General, 2 Expenditure, 2 Police and 2 Awareness observers were deployed besides as many as 257 Micro Observers across both the Parliamentary Constituencies.
He said that as many as 13726 polling personnel were deployed in these constituencies during today’s phase of electioneering adding that logistically the phase was challenging due to remoteness of various areas, as such number of air sorties were carried out to lift the polling parties directly to many polling stations.
Mr. Narula said that total number of electorate in this phase was 13,57,321 and 19 candidates were in the fray.
(KMW)