Polling ended in the second and final phase for 93 Assembly constituencies across 14 districts of north and central Gujarat today. As per Election Commission, nearly 59 percent voting was recorded in the second phase.
833 candidates from 61 parties are in the fray in the second phase of the Gujarat elections whose fate will be decided by over 2.51 crore electorates. There are 26,409 polling booths and nearly 36,000 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Around 29,000 presiding officers and over 84,000 polling officers have been deployed in 14 districts to facilitate the polls.
Of the total 26,409 polling stations, 93 are model polling booths, 93 are eco-friendly booths, another 93 are managed by Divyang and 14 are managed by youth. Webcasting will be done in 13,319 polling booths in the second phase.
The 93 poll-bound seats in the second phase are spread across Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Patan, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Aravali, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Dahod, Vadodara, Anand, Kheda and Chhota Udaipur districts.
Among the key constituencies in the final phase are Ghatlodia, which will determine the poll fate of Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel; Viramgam where Patidar leader Hardik Patel will contest as a BJP candidate, and Gandhinagar South where the saffron party has fielded Alpesh Thakor.
This is the second and final phase of the Gujarat election. First phase polling for 89 seats was held on December 1. Votes will be counted on December 8.
