Polling picks up post-noon to 38.4% in Karnataka

Bengaluru | Thursday | 18th April, 2019

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Polling percentage in other seats were 44.40 in Tumkur, Kolar 38.92 and Chikkaballapur 37.59. Bengaluru: Unfazed by the summer heat and dust, voters turned out in large numbers post-noon to register 38.4 per cent average polling till 3:00 p.m.

in Karnataka’s 14 Lok Sabha constituencies, an official said on Thursday. As a result, Bangalore North recorded 31.98 per cent, followed by Bangalore South 31.66 per cent and Bangalore Central 28.65 per cent, while Bangalore Rural notched up 33.83 per cent till 3:00 p.m. In the hotbed of old Mysuru region, polling increased steadily to post 39.79 per cent in Mandya, 38.30 per cent in Chamarajanagar and 35.69 per cent in Mysore. Even in India’s tech hub, where polling started on a dull note earlier in the day picked up later to catch up with voting trends in coastal and central areas of the southern state..