Over 83% turnout in Mizoram bypoll

AIZAWL: Over 83.3 per cent of the 19,520 voters on Saturday exercised their franchise in the bypoll to the Serchhip Assembly seat in Mizoram, officials said after the completion of 12-hour-long balloting. Continuing the genaral trend of peaceful elections in the mountainous state, no untoward incident was reported from the Serchhip Assembly constituency in central Mizoram.

The by-election to the Serchhip Assembly constituency was necessitated following the disqualification of sitting MLA Lalduhoma of Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) under the anti-defection law in November last year. In Serchhip, women voters outnumbered the men electorate. Of the 19,520 electorates, 10,329 were female voters, who exercised their franchise in 29 polling stations.The results will be declared on May 2. (IANS)

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