Briefing reporters in New Delh today, election Commission officials said Kerala reported the highest poling of 74 per cent polling, while Uttar Pradesh registered 65 per cent. It was 67 percent for Odisha and 55.98 per cent for Madhya Pradesh. Haryana polled around 69.5 per cent, Bihar 55,Jharkhand 58, Chandigargh 74, Andaman Nocbar 67, Jammu 66.29 percent, Maharashtra 54.13 percent and Chhatisgarh witnessed 51.49 per cent. Delhi recorded 64 per cent polling.

Heavy polling was reported in Kerala with about 74 per cent of voters exercising their franchise to elect 20 Lok Sabha members from the state today. AIR Correspondent reports that Kannur district recorded maximum polling of 80.9 per cent. Pathanamthitta recorded the lowest – 65.8 per cent. Capital Thiruvanathapuram recorded 68 per cent polling.

In Haryana, polling was heavy with 69.5 per cent of voting reported for its 10 Lok Sabha seats,when voting ended at 6 p.m. today.

In Odisha, heavy polling was reported with more than 67 percent voting in the 10 Lok Sabha and 70 state Assembly constituencies this evening. The first phase polling was held in these constituencies spread over 19 of the 30 districts in the state.

In Delhi, about 64 percent polling has been reported for seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi today. 150 candidates including 58 independents are in the fray.

In Uttar Pradesh, about 65 percent polling has been recorded in first phase of voting in 10 constituencies. These are Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnore, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagger, Bulandshahr and Aligarh.
In Jharkhand, 58.3 percent of voting was reported when polling ended at 4 PM today for all the four Lok Sabha constituencies. Today was the first phase of three- phase poll in four constituencies- Koderma, Lohardagga, Chatra and Palamu.

In Bihar, about 55 percent voting has been reported in the first phase of polls in six Lok Sabha constituencies. Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar Ajai Nayak said that barring a few stray incident, polling passed away peacefully in the Sasaram, Karakat, Jamui, Gaya, Nawada and Aurangabad seats. The polling has been deferred at 23 booths following reports that Maoist planted land mine at 21 booths in Jamui and 2 in Nawada constituencies. Polling has been also deferred in another three booths at Nawada and one at Aurangabad due to chaos created by miscreants.

In Chhattisgarh, 52 percent polling was recorded in Maoist affected Bastar lok Sabha constituency. Balloting could not take place at pollampalli booth because of failure of Electronic Voting Machine. No major untoward incident was reported so far from anywhere in the constituency.