Roughly 76% of the
electorate voted in the final phase of the West Bengal assembly election on
Thursday, ending a month-long poll season that began with a tense political
battle between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC)
but was quickly overshadowed by surging Covid-19 infections.
Voting in three districts and a part of
Kolkata saw stray violence in some areas but a sharp spike in Covid cases kept
many voters indoor. The provisional turnout of 76.07 % is the lowest of eight
phases and came on a day the state posted its highest cases and deaths, 17,403
and 89, respectively.
Results will be declared on May 2, along
with those for Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry, where polls ended on
April 6.
“The polling was peaceful today, apart
from a few incidents of violence,” chief electoral officer Aariz Aftab said.
Daily infections in the state have zoomed 80 times since February 26, when poll
dates were announced.
The number of candidates and voters in
the last phase was 2,116 and 72, 811, 254, (the number seems wrong)
respectively. The turnouts for the first to the seventh phases were 84.63%,
86.11%, 84.61%, 79.90%, 82.49%, 82% and 76.90%, respectively.
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