The bypoll held for the Bermo Assembly seat in Bokaro district on Tuesday ended on a peaceful note at 4 pm.
“The entire polling process went on peacefully and no untoward incident was reported from any part of the Bermo constituency” said Rajesh Kumar Singh, DC cum Electoral Officer, Bokaro
The fate of Congress, BJP, BSP and 13 other candidates has been locked in EVM today. A high voter turnout of about 62.20% in Bermo, was recorded in the by-election.
The Assembly bypoll was necessitated following the death of sitting Bermo Congress MLA Rajendra Prasad Singh recently. The constituency will see a new MLA after a gap of four months, as Rajendra Prassd Singh had represented Bermo.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, 65.40 per cent of the electorates had cast their votes, while in this bypoll in, Bermo assembly recorded a turnout of 60.20 per cent.
According to reports in Bermo constituency, there was a lot of enthusiasm in the voters since morning and the end of polling.
During the voting, the voters were seen following the rules made regarding COVID-19. At the booth, arrangements were made for the voters to be queued in a circular enclosure maintaining social distance.
Polling workers were seen conducting the voting wearing masks, face shields and hand globs. Arrangements were also made to check the body temperature of the voters with a thermal scanner.
SDM, Bermo Anant Kumar said in the press conference that there were 312507 voters in the entire assembly who have exercised their vote, out of which 148017 were female voters and 164194 are male voters.
A total of 468 polling stations had been set up in Bermo assembly constituency and the number of old booths was 356, but 112 new polling stations had been built in the Corona era and all new polling stations operated in 234 buildings.
The entire assembly had been placed in a cluster while 51 sectors are divided. There were 100 highly sensitive booths, 255 sensitive and 113 general booths, of which the number of disabled voters is 4887 and the number of voters above the age of 80 years about 2620,added SDM,Bermo
The number of model booths was 31, while 2,343 voters had exercised their voting by postal ballot and disabled and elderly voters had exercised their vote at the polling station.
The total number of candidates is 16 and two EVMs used for NOTA.