77.35% voter turnout recorded in second phase polling in five LS seats

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Nagaon’s sitting Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi is contesting against BJP’s Suresh Bora, while Karimganj’s BJP MP Kripanath Malla is pitted against Congress’s Hafiz Ahmed Rashid Choudhury.In Darrang-Udalguri, the main contest is between BJP MP Dilip Saikia and former Congress MP Madhab Rajbongshi.Altogether 77,26,668 voters, including 38,61,559 women and 179 persons of third gender, were eligible to exercise their franchise at 9,133 polling stations, of which 1,220 were identified as ‘critical’.There were 906 urban and 8,227 rural booths, while 473 were managed by women, 12 by persons with disabilities (PwD) and there were also 90 model polling stations.More than 36,000 polling officials and around 40,000 security personnel were deployed during the second phase of polling on Friday.In the first phase polls held on April 19, 78.25 per cent voter turnout was recorded in Kaziranga, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur and Lakhimpur constituencies.

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