Bihar Elections: Voting ends for fourth phase, 57.59% polling recorded till 5 PM

# Voting ends for fourth phase of Bihar assembly elections

# 57.59% polling recorded till 5PM. West Champaran - 59.17%, East Champaran - 59.96%, Sheohar - 56.05%, Sitmarhi - 56.09%, Muzaffarpur - 56.83%, Gopalganj - 58.90% and Siwan - 54.31%

# 55.32% polling registered till 4PM. West Champaran - 60.43%, East Champaran - 55.77%, Sheohar - 54.70%, Sitmarhi - 55.37%, Muzaffarpur - 54.78%, Gopalganj - 55.80% and Siwan - 49.83%

# 52.42% polling registered till 3 PM. West Champaran - 56.47%, East Champaran - 53.45%, Sheohar - 54.70%, Sitmarhi - 53.46%, Muzaffarpur - 52.51%, Gopalganj - 50.93% and Siwan - 46.62%

# 48.37% voters exercised their franchise till 2 PM. West Champaran - 50.73%, East Champaran - 50.27%, Sheohar - 47.40%, Sitmarhi - 49.72%, Muzaffarpur - 49.34%, Gopalganj - 46.07% and Siwan - 42.63%

# 42.94% voting recorded till 1 PM. West Champaran - 45.88%, East Champaran - 45.12%, Sheohar - 43.03%, Sitmarhi - 40.66%, Muzaffarpur - 44.39%, Gopalganj - 42.03% and Siwan - 37.89%

# 35.68 polling registered till 12 noon. West Champaran - 40.03%, East Champaran - 37.84%, Sheohar - 32.09%, Sitmarhi - 31.33%, Muzaffarpur - 36.97%, Gopalganj - 35.58% and Siwan - 31.24%.

# 27.77% voting registered till 11 AM. West Champaran - 31.30%, East Champaran - 29.20%, Sheohar - 23.60%, Sitmarhi - 22.85%, Muzaffarpur - 29.83%, Gopalganj - 28.49% and Siwan - 24.19%

# 18.97% voters exercised their franchise. West Champaran - 23.28%, East Champaran - 18.32%, Sheohar - 18.90%, Sitmarhi - 16.34%, Muzaffarpur - 21.15%,

Gopalganj - 18.43%, Siwan - 15.53.

# Model booth in Barauli constituency of Gopalganj.

# The booth has a playing area for children.

# 12.13% polling registered till 9 AM. West Champaran - 10.09%, East Champaran - 13.61%, Sheohar - 13.20%, Sitmarhi - 9.84%, Muzaffarpur - 13.43%, Gopalganj - 14.27% and Siwan - 10.87%

# 4.77% Voting recorded till 8 AM. West Champaran - 7.59%, East Champaran - 3.09%, Sheohar - 7.50%, Sitmarhi - 5.50%, Muzaffarpur - 3.50%, Gopalganj - 3.98%, and Siwan - 5.49%

# Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue with his campaign blitzkrieg and is expected to address rallies in Madhepura and Katihar today.

# Model booth in the Hathua constituency of Gopalganj.

# Prominent personalities whose fate would be decided in this phase are senior minister Ramai Ram (Bochaha, SC seat), Ranju Geeta (Bajpatti) and Manoj Kushwaha (Kudni).

# A total of 1,46,93,294 electorate will be able to cast vote on 14,139 polling stations to elect their representatives from 776 candidates of which 57 are women.

# From NDA on the other hand, BJP fielded its nominees in 42 seats in this phase, LJP in 5 and Hindustanti Awam Morcha and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) in 4 seats each.

# The scenario has changed this time. From the grand secular alliance camp, Rashtriya Janata Dal has now fielded candidates in 26 constituencies followed by JDU in 21 and Congress 8.

# BJP had won 26 out of 55 seats spread across seven districts of Muzaffarpur, East Champaran, West Champaran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Gopalganj and Siwan in 2010 Assembly polls.

# BJP's then ally JDU had emerged victorious in 24. RJD had won 2 seats and Independents 3.

Voting has begun in 55 seats on Sunday in the penultimate phase of Bihar election, with stakes high for Bharatiya Janata Party as it had along with its then ally Janata Dal United bagged majority of seats in last Assembly polls.

On the basis of assessment of security situation, polling will be held from 7 AM to 5 PM in 43 constituencies, while it will be shortened by one hour in 8 seats and voting would end at 3 PM in four seats, Additional Chief Electoral Officer R Lakshamanan said.

He put the number of polling stations in LWE (Left Wing Extremist) affected areas at 3043. Altogether 1163 companies (each comprising 100 personnel) of Central Paramilitary Force and state police will be posted to ensure free and fair elections.

A total of 38 motor boats will be pressed into services for riverine patrolling on Sunday.

Balloting has already completed on 131 seats in the earlier three rounds. After completion of fourth phase, voting would be over in 186 seats. The last phase of polling is scheduled on November 5 on the remaining 57 seats.

Counting of votes is on November 8.