Record start for Bihar

First phase logs record 65.08% turnout

- MPOST BUREAU

The final turnout in the first phase of the Bihar Assembly polls is 65.08 per cent, the highest in the state's history, the Election Commission said.

A total of 3.75 crore people were eligible to cast their votes at 45,341 polling stations, including 36,733 in rural areas, on November 6 to decide the electoral fate of 1,314 candidates, of whom 1,192 are men and 122 women.