{"id":328408,"date":"2020-11-07T05:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T05:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328408"},"modified":"2020-11-07T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T15:18:36","slug":"voting-underway-for-third-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-third-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting held for third phase of Bihar assembly elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-third-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections\/phase-3-elections\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328409\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328409 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/phase-3-elections-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/phase-3-elections-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/phase-3-elections-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/phase-3-elections-696x571.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/phase-3-elections-512x420.jpg 512w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/phase-3-elections.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a>Voting for the third phase of Bihar assembly elections was held on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Voting was held at 78 assembly seats spread across 19 districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As many as 1,204 candidates are in the fray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The BJP contested on 35 seats while JD(U) contested on 37. The RJD contested on 46 seats whereas, Congress, in 25. Asaduddin\u2019s Owasi\u2019s AIMIM, contested on 16 seats in this round,\u00a0 which may cut into Grand Alliance\u2019s votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the Election Commission, over 56% voter turnout was recorded till 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On November 3, polling for the second phase of Bihar assembly elections was held.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Voting was held at 94 constituencies across 17 districts in the second phase with a voter turnout of 53.51%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Whereas, On October 28, polling for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections was held at 71 constituencies across 16 districts with a voter turnout of 55.69%.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the third phase of Bihar assembly elections was held on Saturday. Voting was held at 78 assembly seats spread across 19 districts. As many as 1,204 candidates are in the fray. The BJP contested on 35 seats while JD(U) contested on 37. The RJD contested on 46 seats whereas, Congress, in 25. Asaduddin\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,13610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328408"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328432,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328408\/revisions\/328432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}