While Bihar recorded 8.86 per cent voter turnout, Jammu and Kashmir recorded 7.63 per cent, Jharkhand 11.68 per cent, Ladakh 10.51 per cent, Maharashtra 6.33 per cent Odisha 6.87 per cent and West Bengal 15.35 per cent, the poll body said.
Voting across 49 parliamentary constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories (UTs) amid tight security and arrangements began on Monday morning.
As the fifth phase of voting in Lok Sabha elections kick-started on Monday morning, several celebrities from Bollywood stepped out to cast their votes in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital. Actor RajKummar Rao was among the early voters.
On Monday morning, voting began across 35 Assembly seats and 5 Lok Sabha constituencies amid tight security and arrangements. Bharatiya Janata Party MLA candidate from Rourkela Assembly Constituency, Dilip Ray, cast the first vote at the Sundargarh booth in Rourkela district of Odisha.
Age is just a number when it comes to voting. This was demonstrated by veteran actress Shubha Khote, who arrived at a polling booth in Mumbai early Monday morning to cast her vote amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
In view of the fifth phase of voting in the six of Mumbai's Lok Sabha constituencies, Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar said that police personnel were deployed at polling booths yesterday itself.
Brij Bhushan was not given a ticket in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as he has been accused of sexual harassment by six women wrestlers, who had protested against him for a long period last year.
As voting for the fifth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 began on Monday morning across 49 parliamentary constituencies, Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor cast his vote at a polling booth in Mumbai.
Voting for the fifth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 began on Monday morning across 49 parliamentary constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories (UTs) amid tight security and arrangements.
Hundreds of people lined up on both sides of the road and on terraces to get a glimpse of the Prime Minister, waving cut-out Modi posters and waving the party flag.