2015 Bihar Assembly Elections Phase I Monday October 12,2015

 

Bihar will go for polls in a five phase election from October 12 and end on November 5. Counting of votes will take place on November 8. The term of the current 243-member Bihar Assembly expires on November 29,2015

A total of 1,35,72,339 electorate are eligible to decide the fate of 583 candidates for the 49 seats in 10 districts in the first phase of elections.

Out of a total of 583 candidates in the field, there are 54 women nominees.

BJP has fielded 27 candidates in the 49 seats followed by JD(U) 24, RJD 17, LJP 13, Congress 8 and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party 6 and Hindusthani Awam Morcha 3.

Left front is trying to make significant inroads in the poll on the basis of combined strength of six parties - CPI, CPI-M, CPI-ML, Forward Block, SUCI (C) and RSP.

BSP, which does not have much influence in Bihar, has fielded a maximum of 41 candidates among the 49 seats.

While CPI has fielded 25 candidates, CPI-M has fielded 12 in the first phase.

Voting would start from 7 AM. While in majority of seats polling would end at 5 PM, in some constituencies time has been cut short to 4 PM and 3 PM on the basis of law and order situation feedback in the Naxal-hit areas

An estimated 57 % of the electorate cast their votes in the first phase of Bihar Assembly election in 49 constituencies which was violence-free note on Monday.
While it was 59.5 % turnout for women on Monday, the male turnout was 54.5 %, Nayak, accompanied by Additional Chief Electoral Officer R Lakhmanan, said. Both of them said that the voting took place in a peaceful environment
Giving details of voting in the districts, Nayak said Khagaria, which has seven Assembly constituencies, recorded the highest 61 % voting. Nawada having five seats saw relatively lowest voting percentage at 53%
About other districts, he said Samastipur recorded 60 % voting, Begusarai 59 %, Bhagalpur 56 %, Banka 58 %, Munger 55 %, Lakhisarai 54 %, Sheikhpura 55 % and Jamui 57% , all registering more voting than it was in last Assembly poll. 
Women voters outnumbered men and the turnout on Monday is more than what it was in the last state poll in 2010 (all phases taken together.)
Overall, the voting percentage in the 2010 polling in Bihar was 50.85. The 49 seats, which went to poll today, represents nearly 20 % of the overall 243 seats in the state, Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Nayak told