India News | Assembly Polls: Chhattisgarh Records 60.92 Per Cent Turnout Till 3 Pm, Mizoram 69.78 Pc

New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) The tentative voter turnout in Chhattisgarh in the phase one of assembly polls stood at 60.92 per cent till 3 pm, the Election Commission said on Tuesday.

It said the turnout in Mizoram was recorded at 69.78 per cent till 3 pm. All 40 assembly seats in the northeastern state went for polls in a single phase. In Chhattisgarh, 20 out of 90 seats went for polls in the first phase.

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"The voting percentage is likely to go upwards when reports from all polling stations, including interior and inaccessible polling stations, come in," the EC said in a statement here.

Voters who reached polling stations till the end of poll hours are allowed to cast their vote, the poll panel pointed out.

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Final figures will be known by Wednesday, it said.

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