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Voting concludes; Turnout above 50%

June 10, 2012

Mangalore, June 10: Polling for Legislative Council elections of South West Teachers' and Graduates' constituency has concluded.


As per the statistics of the Information Department, the South West Teachers' constituency witnessed a voter turnout of 57.475 while the Graduates' constituency recorded a turnout of 53.31%.


Out of the total 11, 859 voters in the Graduates' constituency, a total of 6,322 voters cast their vote while in the Teachers' constituency, 2,817 voters cast their vote out of a total 4,902 voters.


Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda exercised his voting right at the Puttur polling centre.

Speaking to media persons, Mr. Gowda said that he had traveled across the state and found that the polling atmosphere was encouraging. The poll results will be in favour of BJP, he said, stating that the BJP led state government had fulfilled various demands of the teachers including elimination of discrimination in pay. The government had given special attention to education, Mr. Gowda said, stating that about Rs. 15,000 crore had been set aside for education in the state budget.


Voting took place at a total of 34 centres across the district.

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