Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2017 LIVE: 55 per cent turnout till 4 pm

Voting for the fourth phase of Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh is underway in 53 constituencies spread over 12 districts, including the Bundelkhand region and the Nehru-Gandhi bastion, Raebareli.

An estimated 50.37 per cent turnout was recorded till 3 pm during the fourth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh today. Polling is on for 53 Assembly constituencies spread over 12 districts, including the backward Bundelkhand region and the Nehru-Gandhi pocket borough of Raebareli.

Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Allahabad, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Banda, Chitrakoot, Fatehpur and Raebareli among others go to polls today. There are 680 candidates in the fourth phase, including 61 women.

LIVE UPDATES:

·         Nearly 55 per cent voter turnout was registered till 4 pm.

·         50.37 per cent voter turnout in recorded till 3 pm.

·         53 per cent voting in Mahoba, 49.47 per cent in Fatehpur, 57.55 per cent in Lalitpur, 51.3 per cent in Pratapgarh till 3 pm.

·         Over 40 per cent turnout till 2 pm.

UP Polls 2017: Voter turnout till 1 PM is 39%.

·         By 1 pm, turnout of 40 per cent recorded in Jhansi, 40.5 per cent in Fatehpur, 44 per cent in Hamirpur, 43.8 per cent in Mahoba, 35 per cent in Pratapgarh, 35 per cent in Jalaun, 38 per cent in Kaushambi, 33 per cent in Allahabad.

·         25-27 per cent turnout recorded in the fourth phase till noon.

·         23.78 per cent voting in Uttar Pradesh till 11 am in fourth phase of assembly elections.

·         21.22 per cent turnout recorded in Allahabad, 23 per cent in Jalaun, 24 per cent in Pratapgarh and 28 per cent in Chitrakoot. till 11 am.

·         BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui casts his vote at booth number 84 in Banda.

·         32.5 per cent voting in Hamirpur, 30 per cent polling in Mahoba, 29.5 per cent in Jhansi, 25 per cent in Raebareli, 25 per cent in Lalitpur and 21 per cent in Banda till 11 am.

·         West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi casts his vote at booth no 252 in Allahabad.

·         A 12 to 15 per cent turnout has been recorded till 10 am.

·         An overall voting percentage  of 10.23 per cent has been recorded in the fourth phase in Uttar Pradesh till 9 am.

·         Villagers boycott polling in Fatehpur's Khaga over developmental issues. No votes polled at booths 105 and 106, 9 at booth number 107 and 8 at booth number 109.

UP BJP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya casts his vote in Allahabad

 By 9 am, 9.50 per cent voting in Raebareli, 9.8 per cent in Fatehpur, 9 per cent in Lalitpur, 10.4 per cent in Pratapgarh, 11 per cent in Jhansi, 8 per cent in Jalaun, 12 per cent in Chitrakoot and 9.3 per cent voting in Allahabad. 

·         Problem in EVM machine number 296 in Jhansi

·         Congress candidate from Raebareli Sadar Aditi Singh after casting her vote. She is up against BSP's Mohd Shahbaz and BJP's Anita Srivastava.

Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti after casting her vote in Hamirpur

EVMs not working at booth numbers 288, 172 and 166 in Pratapgarh.

·         Voting starts in Banda, problems reported in some EVMs.

·         Voting has still not started in booth number 481 in Jalaun as an EVM machine there is not working.

·         Congress leader Pramod Tiwari with daughter Aradhana Mishra Mona outside a polling booth in Pratapgarh.

Congress leader Pramod Tiwari with daughter Aradhana Mishra Mona outside a polling booth in Pratapgarh.

          Mahoba (UP): Clash between SP and BSP supporters,4 including Samajwadi Party candidate Siddhgopal Sahu's son among three injured. Police have reached the spot.

·         Sunil Rai, director of Indian Postal Service is the first voter at Jwala Devi inter college in Allahabad.

Allahabad's first voter.

·         Sonia Gandhi's turf Rae Bareli has begun voting in Shree Gandhi Vidyalaya Inter College's polling booth no. 178.

·         Voting underway in Allahabad's Jwala Devi Saraswati Shishu Mandir, polling booth no. 245.

It is for the first time since 1998 that Sonia Gandhi has not campaigned in an election. However, on the eve of voting, she wrote a letter to the electorate seeking their support for the party and votes in favor of the party candidates.

The fourth phase is especially significant for the Congress, as it had managed to wrest only six seats in the 2012 assembly polls in these constituencies. Besides, the parliamentary constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Rae Bareli, is also voting in this phase.