UP, Uttarakhand Elections 2017 Live: 60% voting recorded in Uttar Pradesh till 4 pm

Voting will be held in 69 seats in Uttarakhand and in 67 constituencies in UP.

Dehraun/ Lucknow, Feb 15: Polling in Uttarakhand began on Wednesday whereas the second phase of Uttar Pradesh elections also took place. Voting is being carried out in 69 seats in Uttarakhand and in 67 constituencies in UP.

For Uttarakhand chief minister this is a battle that will see whether or not he can bounce back from the sting-operation controversy. Rawat will be contesting from Haridwar rural. In UP, voting will be held in key seats like Samhal, Badaun, Rampur and more. Here are all the latest updates of the day:

5.00 pm: 60% voting recorded in Uttar Pradesh till 4 pm.

3.55 pm: 54.27 percent voter turnout recorded till 3 pm in second phase of polling Uttar Pradesh Polls 2017

3.48 pm: 53% voter turnout recorded till 3 pm in Uttarakhand Election 2017

2.00 pm: Voter turnout recorded till 1 pm in Uttar Pradesh:
Amroha-44.75%,
Badaun-37.03%,
Bareilly-39.06%,
Moradabad-40.80%

1.55 pm: 30.12 per cent voting recorded in Uttarakhand till 1 pm.

1.45 pm: Working for the poor, Dalits, marginalised and underprivileged is government's first responsibility: PM Narendra Modi in Kannauj.

1.20 pm: Drone camera being used at a polling booth in Budaun for surveillance.

#UPPolls2017: Drone camera being used at a polling booth in Budaun for surveillance. pic.twitter.com/kFb2bPvLkm

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2017

12.42 pm: 115-year-old Zurriyat Hussain Kazmi, maternal grandfather of Union Min Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, casts his vote in Bareilly.

12.30 pm: Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat casts his vote at booth no 45 in Dharampur.

#UttarakhandElection2017: CM Harish Rawat casts his vote at booth no 45 in Dharampur, pic.twitter.com/8W3VzO8GWh

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

11.52 am: 24% polling in registered in Uttarakhand till 11 am.

11.48 am: 24.14% voter turnout recorded till 11 am in Uttar Pradesh second phase of polling.

10.58 am: Bhagat Singh Koshiyari casts vote in Uttarakhand.

10.54 am: Baba Ramdev casts his vote at polling booth in Haridwar.

#Uttarakhand: Baba Ramdev casts his vote at polling booth no.106 in Haridwar,says 'Modiji poori pramanikta se apna rajdharm nibha rahe hain' pic.twitter.com/SV3nj5lAxV

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

10.27 am: Congress's Indira Hridayesh casts her vote in Haldwani.

#UttarakhandElection: Cong's Indira Hridayesh casts her vote at booth no 17 in Haldwani;She's contesting agnst BSP's SAhmad&BJP's JPSRautela pic.twitter.com/T6UhqI2Six

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

10.18 am: Urdu poet Wasim Barelvi casts his vote.

#UttarPradesh: Urdu poet Wasim Barelvi casts his vote at polling booth no. 24 in Bareilly with his wife pic.twitter.com/8oPU1mAIf6

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2017

9.54 am: Chief Electoral Officer Radha Raturi casts her vote at Government Girls Inter College in Dehradun's Kishanpur.

9.50 am: 6% polling percentage recorded in the first hour of the Uttarakhand polls. 10.75% voter turnout recorded in Uttar Pradesh till 9 am.

9.45 am: MoS Finance Santosh Gangwar casts his vote.

#UttarPradesh: MoS Finance Santosh Gangwar casts his vote at polling booth no. 60 in Bareilly with wife Saubhagya Gangwar pic.twitter.com/TIRZqe9Ikb

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2017

9.18 am: BJP's Uttarakhand president Ajay Bhatt casts his vote.

#UttarakhandElection2017 BJP's Uttarakhand president Ajay Bhatt casts his vote at polling booth no. 130 in Ranikhet. pic.twitter.com/g8WqvW4MXK

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

9.03 am: People queue up to cast their votes at polling booths 54 & 55 in Bajpur.

#UttarakhandElection2017-Ppl queue up to cast their votes at polling booths 54 & 55 in Bajpur;BSP's Ramavatar,BJP's Yashpal Arya contesting. pic.twitter.com/y3SVJoZ3i2

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

8.38 am: Former minister and Congress candidate Tilakraj Behad casts his vote in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand.

8.30 am:

#UttarakhandElection2017 People show their inked finger after casting their vote at a polling booth in Dehradun. pic.twitter.com/pQao6tlOv2

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

8.23 am: People queue up to cast their vote in Dehradun.

#UttarakhandElection2017 People queue up to cast their vote in Dehradun's Hathi Barkala pic.twitter.com/3LiBpl97Jc

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 15, 2017

8.03 am: Voting for 69 of a total of 70 assembly seats in Uttarakhand barring Karnaprayag begins.

8.00 am: Narendra Modi urges voters from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to come out in large numbers and vote.

उत्तराखंड में आज मतदान का दिन है। सभी मतदाताओं से अनुरोध है कि वे अपने मत का प्रयोग करें और लोकतंत्र के इस उत्सव के साझेदार बनें।

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 15, 2017

उत्तर प्रदेश में आज दूसरे चरण का मतदान है। मेरी विनती है कि सभी मतदाता लोकतंत्र के इस पावन उत्सव में भाग लें और भारी संख्या में मतदान करें।

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 15, 2017

7.40 am: Glitch in EVM machine halts voting process at Badaun Sadar constituency's S.K.Inter College-booth no. 183.

7.10 am: People queue up outside polling booths to cast their vote.

Visuals from polling booth 128 in Bijnor, Ruchi Vira of the SP-Congress alliance, BJP's Suchi & BSP's Rashid Ahmed contesting from the seat pic.twitter.com/eopobB2bkP

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2017

7.05 am: Polling begins for 67 Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh in the second of seven phase.

6.43 am:

Visuals from Moradabad: Polling for 67 assembly constituencies of #UttarPradesh in the second of seven phases, set to take place today. pic.twitter.com/sPfpxPKnDY

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2017

6.42 am: 69 of a total of 70 assembly seats barring Karnaprayag to go to polls in the single phase assembly elections in Uttarakhand today. Voting in the Karnaprayag seat has been postponed and will be held on March 9 as the BSP candidate Kuldeep Kanvasi was killed in a road accident.

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