11 April,2014 08:53 AM IST | | Agencies
People cutting across social and economic strata poured into 140,850 polling centres from the time they opened at 7 in the morning for the 11-hour balloting yesterday; overall voting percentage was almost 63
New Delhi: Some 120 million people across the country voted yesterday across 14 states and union territories in a critical third phase of the parliamentary elections to pick 91 of the 543 Lok Sabha members.
(From Left to Right) Arvind Kejriwal, Nitin Gadkari, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi
It includes seven seats in the national capital whose control is considered important for any party seeking to sit in the seat of power in New Delhi.
The overall voting percentage was almost 63 at the 140,850 voting centres from the time they opened at 7 am.
Political analyst GVL Narasimha Rao, said Thursday's polling was important because the 91 seats were almost a sixth of the total LS seats. There was a record voter turnout of 73.4 percent in Kerala
91
Number of Lok Sabha seats that went to polls in the third phase yesterday
7
Number of Lok Sabha seats in Delhi
1,414
Total number of candidates that were in the fray yesterday
