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Voting for the 6th Phase of Elections is ongoing, and the voter turnout stood at 39.13 percent, with Delhi recording the lowest voters turnout at 34.37 percent polling and West Bengal was leading yet again with a turnout of 54.80 percent.
Bengal was followed by Jharkhand where the voter turnout stood at 42. 54 percent.
A total of 58 seats across six states and two Union territories are voting in this round, with as many as 889 candidates in the fray. The Election Commission has approved the candidature of 162 nominees in the national capital.
By the end of today, elections will be completed in 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Polling will also be completed in Haryana, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir. The Election Commission has asked poll officers and authorities to take adequate measure to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh due to a heatwave across north India.
Voters in the following seven states and one union territory will cast their ballots: Eight seats each in Bihar and Bengal, seven in Delhi, 10 in Haryana, four in Jharkhand, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, and the final seat in Jammu & Kashmir -- Anantnag-Rajouri, where poling was moved from the third to the sixth phase.
Some of the key seats in this phase include New Delhi, North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi and Chandni Chowk in the national capital and Sultanpur and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag-Rajouri, West Bengal's Tamluk, Medinipur, Haryana's Karnal, Kurukshetra, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Odisha's Bhubaneswar, Puri and Sambalpur are some of the other key seats.