Andhra Pradesh Records 80.66% Voter Turnout In Lok Sabha, Assembly Elections

Andhra Pradesh registered a total polling percentage of 80.66 per cent in the elections for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175 Assembly constituencies, according to the lates🃏t information available on the Election Commission's app.

The polling percentage rose from 79.83 in 2019 to 80.66 per cent in the Lok Sabha and Assembl❀y polls heﷺld in the state simultaneously on May 13.

Several polling💛 stations allowed voters who were already standing in the queue by 6 pm on Monday, scheduled closing time, to exercise their franchise, le🌌ading to late night polling.

Incidentally, there was a lot of interest in voting but the polling process was a bဣit slow, an official told PTI.

According to the Ele♑ction Commission, 454🌳 candidates contested for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 2,387 did so in the Assembly polls.

Meanwhile, YSRCP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy thanked the voters for turning up to exercise their franchise despitౠe the⛎ soaring temperatures.

"I would like to thaꦉnk my sisters (women), aged (old people), brothers, farmers, SC, ST, BC, minority 💛and young voters for coming like a tsunami to bless me in the elections," said Reddy in a post on X on Tuesday.

Thanking all the people who toiled for tಌhe ruling party, the CM promised to continue the good governance.

TDP supremo and former CM N Chandrababu Naidu called the🐷 May 13 elections historic and a special day, noting that people exhibited enthusiasm and awareness.

"Every voter clearly display🍎ed the determination to end the atrocious reign and achieve democratic rule... Hundreds of people travelle🌟d thousands of kilometres to exercise their franchise," said Naidu in a post on X yesterday.

Counting of votes will be taken up on June 4.