Final round of polling for Bihar Assembly today
posted on Nov 5, 2015 8:46AM
Last and final round of polling for 57 seats of Bihar Assembly begins today sharply at 7am and it will continue till evening 5 pm. However, polling will ends at 3 Prime Minister in 276 polling stations which were in Maoists’ influenced areas.
Total voters: 1, 55, 43, 594; Male: 81, 84, 948; Female: 73, 51,277; No. of Polling stations: 14,709; EVM Stations: 14,722; Ballot polling stations: 18,866.
Total 827 candidates are in fray for the 57 constituencies in this final round of polling being held nine districts of Madhubani, Darbhanga, Supual, Madhepura, Saharsa, Araria, Kisanganj, Purnea and Katihar, including 24 in the Seemanchal region of the state.
Unlike previous phases of elections, the main competition would be between Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Pappu Yadav’s Jan Adhikar Party Loktantrik (JAP-L) and Owaisi’ All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) parties only. MIM party that is contesting for the first time in Bihar state, fields 6 candidates from Seemanchal region.
These parties may play King Maker roll in case if the NDA or Janata Parivar alliances fail to win sufficient seats on their own to form the government. Elections results will be declared on November 8th that is hardly three days away.