West Bengal: 82.14% final voter turnout
[See 2009 results in West Bengal]
[Follow live updates of Phase 8 of Lok Sabha election]
[Follow live updates of polling in Seemandhra]
6:30 pm: 82.14% final turnout in West Bengal.
6.00 pm: Polling concludes. BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addresses three rallies in the state on the polling day.
5.25 pm: 81.5% polling recorded till 5 pm.
5.10 pm: A TMC supporter was allegedly attacked with weapons in Disergarh in Kulti in Asansol constituency. Sitting MP Bangsha Gopal Chowdhury said it was a non-political incident.
4.30 pm: Trinamool supporter attacked with knife in Narayangarh.
4.00 pm: Left Front chairman Biman Bose said the state police did not stop rigging in the state.
3.30 pm: 73.02% polling recorded till 3 pm.
3.10 pm: TMC supporters accused of capturing 120 booths in Bishnupur constituency. Not many observers anywhere, say local news channels.
2.40 pm: Left supporters accused TMC of booth capturing in Asansol, said police remained mere spectators.
2.35 pm: Bankura MP and CPI(M) candidate Basudeb Acharia allegedly threatened by Trinamool supporters in Mejia in the constituency. It was said that Acharia was threatened after he tried to put polling agents in some booths.
2.30 pm: BJP polling agents removed from at least 50 booths in Midnapore constituency, say local channel reports.
2.00 pm: Presiding officer in a polling booth in Purulia removed after a local Trinamool panchayat leader enters the booth to oversee polling.
1.40 pm: 61.62% polling recorded till 1 pm.
11.40 am: Central force personnel asks state police ASI to exit from a booth in Purulia. The ASI refuses, leading to a dispute.
11.15 am: 45.8% polling till 11 am.
11.10 am: Violence continues in West Bengal. Goons chop off breast of CPI(M)'s agent's relative in West Bengal, reports Bengali news channel 24 Ghanta. The shocking incident took place in Naskarpur village in Tarakeshwar in Arambag constituency.
10.56 am: CPI(M) supporter attacked in Jamuria in Asansol constituency. Charges of rigging in booths 78, 79 and 80 in Jamuria.
10.55
am:
Trinamool
charged
of
rigging
in
33
booths
in
Garbeta
under
Jhargram
constituency.
10.20
am:
I
love
you
too,
Trinamool
candidate
Moon
Moon
Sen
tells
a
supporter
in
Bankura
while
speaking
to
a
reporter
of
Bengali
channel
24
Ghanta.
9.40 am: Trinamool and Left supporters clash in West Midnapore district.
9.29 am: 24% polling recorded till 9 am.
9.23 am: Three differently abled women voters assaulted in a booth in Dangalpara in Pandabeshwar in Asansol constituency.
9.10 am: Man found monitoring voting in booth 143 in Khandaghosh in Bishnupur constituency.
8.45 am: EC is just taking a cure than a prevention, says BJP candidate from Asansol Babul Supriyo on the less number of central forces that have been sent to the state. Only 21 companies of forces have been reportedly sent to the state while the requirement was for 36.
8.30
am:
Protest
against
CPI
candidate
in
Midnapore
Prabodh
Panda
for
flaunting
MP
sticker
on
his
car.
Panda
is
the
sitting
MP
from
this
seat.
8.05
am:
Reports
of
technical
snag
in
EVMs
in
booth
no.
177
and
180.
No
central
forces
in
five
booths
in
Asansol
constituency.
8.00 am: Voting underway in West Bengal. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has been accused of stopping CPI(M)'s polling agent in a booth in Bishnupur in Bankura district.
Oneindia News