50 percent voting in Jharkhand re-polling

May 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Re-polling in two booths in south Delhi's Chhattarpur area saw 65.42 percent voter turnout Sunday. The re-polling was ordered in the two booths after they recorded 98.5 percent turnout Thursday, the Election Commission said.

May 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Re-polling was underway Sunday in two polling booths in south Delhi's Chhattarpur area that had both recorded an unbelievable 98.5 percent voter turnout, officials said. 'In polling station numbers 64 and 64 A, the assistant returning officer told me that the voter turnout was 98.5 percent on Thursday.

May 2nd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Election Commission Saturday ordered re-polling in 25 voting centres in Orissa, officials said. The polling will take place Tuesday from 7 a.m.

April 30th, 2009 GANGTOK - Sikkim registered a record voter turnout of 83 percent Thursday as it held simultaneous assembly elections and balloting for its lone Lok Sabha seat in the third phase of the elections. The percentage Thursday is higher than the 82 percent registered in 1999.

April 28th, 2009 RANCHI/NEW DELHI - At least 50 percent voters cast their ballot Tuesday in 116 polling stations of the Leftist insurgency-hit Jharkhand where re-polling was ordered following defective or damaged electronic voting machines during the first and second phases of the Lok Sabha elections. The voting ended peacefully at the polling booths spread in all the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state, Deputy Election Commissioner J.P.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Polling stations in 140 constituencies across 12 states opened at 7 a.m. for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - About 30 percent of the 20.6 million voters in Karnataka cast their votes in 17 parliamentary constituencies till 3 p.m. Thursday even as a polling official was reported to have died of a heart attack.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - An estimated 55 percent of the 194 million electorate voted Thursday in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls held across 12 states. 'There was an average 55 percent polling.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Thursday ordered re-poll in 146 voting stations in Bihar and 58 in Jharkhand where ballotting was held in the first phase April 16. The date for the re-polling in Bihar would be announced later, Deputy Election Commissioner R.

April 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Jharkhand witnessed a moderate voter turnout of 45-50 percent in the first phase of elections Thursday amid violence by the Maoist rebels who killed nine people in a landmine blast and abducted 11 poll officials. The officials said that six Lok Sabha constituencies in the state saw around 50 percent voting but the final tally could go up as details from all the polling booths come in.

April 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist violence that killed nine people appeared to have created fear among Jharkhand's voters as a low turnout was witnessed in the first four hours in the six of the state's 14 Lok Sabha constituencies where polling was underway in the first phase of the general elections Thursday. Nine people including seven Border Security Force (BSF) personnel going for polling duty were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in the state's Latehar district.

April 16th, 2009 RANCHI - Voting for six Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand began Thursday morning with a large number of security personnel being deployed at polling booths in view of the threat of Maoist violence. Polling in the six constituencies - Palamau, Chatra, Koderma, Lohardagaa, Hazaribagh and Khuti - began at 7 a.m.

April 16th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Despite hopes of a high turnout, only 59 percent of over 20 million electorate in Kerala turned out to vote Thursday. In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, the state recorded 71.45 percent voting average.

April 14th, 2009 RANCHI - Campaigning ended Tuesday in six of Jharkhand's 14 Lok Sabha seats where polling will be held April 16, with the stage set for a triangular or multi-cornered contest on all the seats. A total of 7,068,696 voters will decide the fate of 85 candidates in the fray, including former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha and former coal minister Karia Munda, both contesting on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tickets, from Hazaribagh and Khuti, respectively.

January 4th, 2009 RANCHI - Ignoring a Maoist poll boycott call, people turned up in large numbers to vote in the key Jharkhand assembly by-election in Tamar from where Chief Minister Shibu Soren is seeking entry to the state legislature. Around 58 percent polling was recorded, election officials said.