Maharashtra Elections 2024: All 288 constituencies in Maharashtra went to polls on Wednesday, marking a crucial showdown between the ruling Mahayuti alliance and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). This election also coincides with the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections. The campaign for Maharashtra’s assembly elections concluded on November 18.
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Polling began in all 288 constituencies at 7 am on Wednesday. Voting will conclude at 6 pm the same day. The results will be announced by the ECI on November 23. The exit polls will begin post 6:30 pm. You can catch Maharashtra Exit Poll Results 2024 Live on Financial Express Online.
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Voting will be allowed until 6 pm on Wednesday evening, but voters can still go to the polling stations and cast their votes. At some polling stations, voter turnout was reported to be sparse, while in other constituencies, there was noticeable enthusiasm among the voters. Employees of private companies were voting at polling stations in the morning and then heading to work. However, overall, by 10 am in the first round of voting, there was not much voter activity at the polling stations, as per LokSatta.
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Meanwhile, as soon as voting began in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Wednesday morning, an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) malfunctioned at one of the booths. This caused a brief delay, with some voters temporarily waiting while they had indelible ink applied to their fingers, sources reported. The incident took place at polling booth No. 164, located at New English School in the Nandgaon assembly constituency of northern Maharashtra.
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