Voter turnout across 96 Lok Sabha seats stood at 40.32% till 1 pm on Monday. West Bengal registered the highest turnout with 51.87%, followed by Jharkhand at 43.80% and Telangana at 40.38%. The lowest turnout was reported in Jammu and Kashmir at 23.57% and Maharashtra at 30.85%.
A total of 1,717 candidates are in the fray in the Lok Sabha seats. More than 19 lakh polling officials have been deployed at 1.92 lakh polling stations for the over 17.70 crore eligible voters, including 8.73 women, in this round of the seven-phase polls.
So far, till phase three of the Lok Sabha elections, polling has concluded in 283 seats out of 543.
Polling is being held in all 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, all 25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, 13 in Uttar Pradesh, five in Bihar, four in Jharkhand, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, four in Odisha, eight in West Bengal and one in Jammu and Kashmir.
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