Re-polling was held on two polling booths of the city on Thursday. One polling booth each of Bhopal Dakshin-Pashchim and Bhopal Central constituencies went for re-polling, the two polling booths where re-polling was held in Bhopal are polling station No; 61 at the Government Gandhi Middle School (under the Bhopal Dakshin-Pashchim constituency) and polling station No; 93 in the Saint Francis School, Jehangirabad (under the Bhopal Central constituency).
A total of 77.34 per cent polling was recorded at the polling station No. 93 while 69.63 per cent polling at polling booth number 61
Returning officer for the Saint Francis School booth GS Dhurve informed that 413 voters of the total 534 voters of the booth cast their votes. While the returning officer for the Government Gandhi Middle School informed that 766 of the total 1,100 voters exercised their voting rights.
No untoward incident was reported from both the polling booths.
The re-poll was ordered following complaints of malfunctioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in these polling booths of Bhopal.
72.52 per cent of the electorate exercised their right to franchise in the November 25, polls for the 230 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh.
State Home Minister Umashankar Gupta is pitched against Congress’ Sanjeev Saxena from the Dakshin-Pashchim assembly constituency, while Bhopal Development Authority (BDA) chairman Surendranath Singh is BJP candidate from Bhopal Madhya and is taking on former State Congress spokesman Arif Masood.