Moderate to high turnout recorded

Moderate to high turnout was recorded in 13 Assembly constituencies across seven states where bypolls were held on Wednesday including Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal.

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Voting time was from 7 am to 6 pm. According to the Voter Turnout App of the Election Commission (EC), Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi Assembly seat registered the highest polling percentage among the 13 constituencies and Uttarakhand’s Badrinath seat saw the lowest turnout.

The electoral exercise, the first since the Lok Sabha polls, will decide the fate of many veterans and some debutantes, including Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur.

In Uttarakhand’s Manglaur constituency, four people were injured in a clash between supporters of rival parties at a polling booth. Roorkee Civil Line Kotwali in-charge R K Saklani told news agency that a report was received about the clash at booth number 53-54 in Libbarheri in Manglaur.