Mizoram recorded a turnout of 60% in the elections to the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state.
The polling percentage was likely to go up as the final reports from some inaccessible polling stations were awaited as also arrival of the postal ballots including 11,000 Bru votes in the Tripura relief camps, state chief electoral officer Ashwani Kumar said.
He described the turnout as good compared to the 50.93% in the last parliamentary polls held in 2009 but lower than the 83.41% in the last Assembly elections on November 25 last year. Except for minor technical snags, polling was smooth and peaceful in 2,126 polling stations across the state, the CEO said.
The candidates for the lone Lok Sabha seat were sitting MP and ruling Congress nominee C L Ruala, Aam Aadmi Party candidate Michael Lalmanzuala and an Independent candidate Robert Romawia Royte of the United Democratic Alliance, a platform of eight opposition parties including the main opposition Mizo National Front and the BJP.
In the by-poll to the Hrangturzo assembly seat held simultaneously, around 75% votes were polled. The by-poll was necessitated as CM Lal Thanhawla who had won from two constituencies in 2013 assembly polls vacated the seat.
The polling percentage was likely to go up as the final reports from some inaccessible polling stations were awaited as also arrival of the postal ballots including 11,000 Bru votes in the Tripura relief camps, state chief electoral officer Ashwani Kumar said.
He described the turnout as good compared to the 50.93% in the last parliamentary polls held in 2009 but lower than the 83.41% in the last Assembly elections on November 25 last year. Except for minor technical snags, polling was smooth and peaceful in 2,126 polling stations across the state, the CEO said.
The candidates for the lone Lok Sabha seat were sitting MP and ruling Congress nominee C L Ruala, Aam Aadmi Party candidate Michael Lalmanzuala and an Independent candidate Robert Romawia Royte of the United Democratic Alliance, a platform of eight opposition parties including the main opposition Mizo National Front and the BJP.
In the by-poll to the Hrangturzo assembly seat held simultaneously, around 75% votes were polled. The by-poll was necessitated as CM Lal Thanhawla who had won from two constituencies in 2013 assembly polls vacated the seat.
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