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Ahmedabad:
A complete of 60.75 per cent voter turnout was recorded in byelections to eight Assembly seats in Gujarat, the state Election Commission mentioned on Wednesday.
Byelections to eight seats — Abdasa, Karjan, Morbi, Gadhada, Dhari, Limbdi, Kaprada and Dang — had been held on Tuesday.
As many as 11,39,163 out of 18,75,032 registered voters exercised their franchise, mentioned a launch from the workplace of the Chief Electoral Officer.
Kaprada constituency in Valsad district registered the very best turnout at 77.50 per cent, adopted by Dang at 75.01 per cent and Karjan at 70.01 per cent.
Abdasa recorded 61.82 per cent voting, Limbdi 58.01 per cent, Morbi 52.32 per cent, Gadhada 50.76 and Dhari 45.79 per cent,the discharge mentioned.
Counting of votes will happen on November 10.
As per the provisional figures launched by the Election Commission on Tuesday, the voter turnout until 5 pm was 57.29 per cent. Voting passed off between 7 am and 6 pm.
81 candidates are within the fray throughout eight seats.
The by-elections had been necessitated after the sitting Congress MLAs resigned forward of Rajya Sabha polls held in June this yr. Five of them later joined the ruling BJP and the social gathering fielded them from the identical seats within the bypolls.
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