About 42.29 per cent voters exercised their franchise till 2 p.m. today for 10 Lok Sabha seats in the third and final phase of polling in Madhya Pradesh.
“Polling is going on peacefully and so far 42.29 per cent electorates, including 49.82 per cent men and 34.27 per cent women, have cast their votes,” Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Jaideep Govind told reporters here.
Meanwhile, reports of poll boycott were received from Khargone’s Satavada village (polling booth no. 15) citing lack of basic facilities.
Besides, only five votes were polled till now at polling booth No. 142 in Ratlam’s Jaora town on the same issue, Govind said.
Efforts are on to persuade people to exercise their right to franchise by the officials concerned but they are not relenting, he said.
The poll percentage in ten Lok Sabha seats in MP is as follows: Vidisha (42.57 per cent), Dewas (44.05 per cent), Ujjain (38.28 per cent), Mandsaur (47.91 per cent), Ratlam (41.67 per cent), Dhar (38.07 per cent), Indore (40.52 per cent), Khargone (48.92 per cent), Khandwa (41.21 per cent) and Betul (39.69 per cent).
Poll officials also seized Rs 10.71 lakh in two separate cases in Ratlam constituency, the official said.
Besides, 945 litres of country-made liquor worth Rs 1.70 lakh in Indore, 148-litre liquor worth Rs 25,000 from Betul constituency and 21 litres at Dewas were seized by poll personnel.
A poll official in Harda district, which falls under Betul constituency, passed away due to cardiac arrest while on duty, Govind added.