{"id":304208,"date":"2018-10-16T14:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304208"},"modified":"2018-10-16T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:51:41","slug":"j-k-municipal-polls-4-2-voter-turnout-in-final-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/j-k-municipal-polls-4-2-voter-turnout-in-final-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"J-K municipal polls: 4.2% voter turnout in final phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302712 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-475x420.jpg 475w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the final phase of the four phase municipal elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the voter turnout was recorded at 4.2 per cent till 4 pm on October 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At the end of all four phases, the state recorded an aggregate voter turnout of 35.1 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Officials said that the counting for the four-phased polls will be done on October 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Updates:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling began at 6 am amidst stringent security arrangements at 308 polling stations in the twin districts of Srinagar and Ganderbal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Central Kashmir&#8217;s Ganderbal District witnessed a voter turnout of 11.3 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Srinagar District recorded a mere voter turnout of 4.0 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Out of 2.42 lakh voters in 24 wards of the Srinagar Municipal Corporation, only 9,678 (four per cent) turned up at heavily-fortified polling stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among the four polling phases, maximum voter turnout of 56.7 per cent was recorded in the first phase in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The least voter turnout was registered in the fourth phase touching 4.2 per cent only.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the final phase of the four phase municipal elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the voter turnout was recorded at 4.2 per cent till 4 pm on October 16. At the end of all four phases, the state recorded an aggregate voter turnout of 35.1 per cent. Officials said that the counting for the four-phased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,5470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304220,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304208\/revisions\/304220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}