Mizoram assembly elections end with 81 per cent votes

Aizawl, Nov 25:

reported eighty one per cent polling at 4 pm, which was the closing time.

Polling in Mizoram began at 7 am with the main contenders - ruling Congress and opposition Mizoram Democratic Alliance comprising MNF, Mizoram People's Conference and Maraland Democratic Alliance - contesting at all 40 seats.

All the seats are reserved for ST nominees, except Lunglei South which is for general candidates. Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla of the Congress and all his 11 ministers are among the 142 candidates in fray.

Women outnumber men by a margin of 9,806 in the electorate of 6,908,60. While there are 3,50,333 women in the electorate, male voters count 3,40,527.

Chief Minister's brother and Parliamentary Secretary Lal Thanzara who cast his vote in his home constituency Aizawl North 3 predicted 28 seats for the Congress.

For the first time in the country, a voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) system will be tried in this election on a larger scale, in 10 constituencies. It was first experimented in an Assembly bypoll in Nagaland in September.

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