Nov 21, 2024 07:22 AM IST
The voter turnout in the important thing Palakkad meeting bypoll in Kerala crossed 69.8%, as per the voter turnout app at 11.30 pm.
Polling handed off peacefully throughout the 184 polling cubicles within the constituency which has a mixture of rural and concrete voters.
A complete of 1,94,000 individuals had been eligible to vote within the by-election necessitated by the resignation of sitting Congress MLA Shafi Parambil who was elected to Lok Sabha this 12 months.
There have been 10 candidates within the fray, of which Rahul Mamkootathil of the UDF, C Krishnakumar of the NDA and P Sarin of the LDF had been key names.
The constituency, which has seen fierce triangular contests within the final 10 years, was gained by the UDF thrice since 2011.
In 2021 meeting election, the constituency noticed a detailed contest between Parambil of the UDF and E Sreedharan of the BJP. Parambil finally gained by over 3,800 votes. The LDF candidate was within the third place.
The bypoll marketing campaign noticed two key defections this time — P Sarin from Congress to CPI(M) and Sandeep Varier from BJP to Congress — round which the narratives primarily swirled.
The votes within the Palakkad bypoll, together with these carried out to Wayanad parliamentary constituency and Chelakkara meeting constituency, will probably be counted on November 23.
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