Counting of votes to be held in 24 rounds

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A maximum of 24 rounds will be held in Indore lok Sabha constituency during the counting of votes for the lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh to be held on May 16.This will be followed by 23 rounds of counting each for Mandla and Betul parliamentary constituencies.

Indore parliamentary constituency had 21.14 lakh voters. As many as 22 candidates were in the fray in Indore, second only to Bhopal’s 28 candidates. Mandla had a maximum of 2,206 polling booths while a maximum of 4,856 EVMs were used in Indore. Maximum female voters also cast  their votes in Indore constituency.There will be 22 rounds of counting in Bhopal and Khandwa lok Sabha constituencies where 4,353 and 2,166 EVMs were used, respectively.Maximum of 28 candidates were in the fray in Bhopal where 19 lakh 55 thousand 379 voters cast  their votes, second to Indore. As many as 21 rounds will be held in six parliamentary constituencies including Bhind, Gwalior, Sidhi, Balaghat, Chhindwara and Ratlam

and 20 rounds in maximum 8 constituencies including Morena, Khajuraho, Shahdol, Jabalpur, Hoshangabad, Vidisha, Mandsaur and Dhar.The six constituencies where counting will be held in 19 rounds include Guna, Sagar, Damoh, Rajgarh, Dewas and Khargone. In Satna and Ujjain lok Sabha constituencies, counting will be completed in 18 rounds each while Rewa is the only parliamentary constituency where counting will be held in 17 rounds.

Minimum of 16 rounds will he held in Tikamgarh. Counting of votes for Vidisha Vidhan Sabha by-election will be held on May 16 at SSl Jain College, Vidisha, in 18 rounds. At all the counting centres, announcement regarding results of each round will be announced. 

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