Voting Percentage Increases in Gorakhpur-Faizabad Block Teachers' Constituency

The voting percentage in the Gorakhpur-Faizabad block teachers'constituency has increased after the final voting figures were out. The election office had earlier reported 79.01 percentage of voting, but after the ballot boxes were collected and matched with the presiding officers'Form-16, the actual turnout was 79.32 percentage. Thus, the previously announced figure has increased by.31%. Out of the total 54,910 voters in the constituency, 43,553 exercised their franchise. The counting will be done on the basis of this final figure. The percentage was determined according to the preliminary data collected after the end of polling. After this, the records were matched while the ballot boxes were being collected in the strong room till about 4 am on Saturday. After this, the actual voting percentage became clear. Now all the candidates have started preparing for the counting. This teachers'constituency includes voters from 17 districts. In the last election, 73.94 percentage of voting was done. This time, however, the number of valid votes in various seats of the state was recorded to be around 5.38%.