THE Nagpur South-West Assembly constituency witnesseda good percentage of voting-54.49 percent on Wednesday whichis four per centmore than whatithadregisteredinlastpolls. The finally tally at 5 pm will keep changing as the last figure was not released by district administration.

 

This constituency did not have rebellion and it was a straight fight between Congress’ Praful Gudadhe and BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis. The voting per centage of this constituency was 56.4 in 2014 which had gone down to 50.5% in 2019 polls. On Wednesday there is a surge in the voting per centage by 4. People started queuing up for voting from 7 am, with initial turnout of 8.92 per cent till 9 am. By 11 am, the voting increased to 19.91 per cent,reaching 31.12 per cent by 1 pm, and 41.76 per cent by 3 pm.

 

This good trend of voting continued for the whole day andby 5 pm it reached 51.54 per cent. Polling stations in areas like Jaitala,SubhashNagar,HBEstate, Sahakar Nagar, Khamla etc saw a good turnout throughout the day.Theoverallprocesswasconducted smoothly without any major incidents. There were no toomany complaints from voters about missing names. Some people did come as they did not find their names. They were helped by the officers so that they should not miss casting their votes.