Overview of Lok Sabha polls across districts in Nagaland

DIPR News 
April 9
KOHIMA: The polling day for the 16th Lok Sabha election in Nagaland on April 9 witnessed considerable turnout of voters till noon in Kohima and neighbouring village amidst peaceful and congenial atmosphere.

Polling Station 13 (L. Khel Upper-I) and 14 (L. Khel Upper-II) under 10 Northern Angami-I A/C saw peaceful polling being conducted at north and south wing building Khedi Baptist English School. By 11.30 am, Polling 13 had registered 62.33% votes cast with females outnumbering the males.

Polling Station 20 Mission Compound under 10 Northern Angami-I A/C was one out of the 8 all female polling stations in the constituency. By noon, it had registered 31.77% of votes cast with females outnumbering males.

Polling Station 11 Daklane-I under 8 Western Angami A/C located at Government Middle School, Daklane was also an all female polling station. By noon, the votes cast was 35.17% of the enrolled votes. Youths turned up in groups to cast their votes.

New Market-II Polling Station-13 under 8-Western Angami A/C witnessed good community participation with senior citizens and sector officials overseeing the orderly conduct of the polling. By noon, the cast votes registered was 37.86% of the total enrolled.

At Polling Station-14 New Market-I under 8 Western Angami A/C, the vote cast till noon was 43.64% of the enrolled votes. 
Polling Station 15- New Market-III under 8 western Angami A/C had one of the 18 all female polling parties in Kohima. The voter turnout was 33.61% by noon time with female turnout of 57.69% outnumbering the males.

Polling Station-12 Daklane-II under 8 Western Angami A/C saw polling officials handling some minor polling disruption due to instances of alleged proxy voting. By noon, 43.5% of votes had been cast there.

The vote cast at Polling Station 15 L. Khel, Lowe-I under 10 Northern Angami-I was 46.9% by afternoon.
Polling Station 16 L. Khel Lower-II under 8 Western Angami A/C witnessed calm polling being conducted in the south wing of Government Middle School building. The Polling Station registered 39.74% of votes cast by afternoon.

Polling Station P. Khel-II under 8 Western Angami A/C had registered 36.77% of votes cast by afternoon while voters were still turning up steadily at the south wing building of the GPS Kohima village.

At Polling Station 11 P. Khel-I under 8 Western Angami A/C the voter turnout till the afternoon  was 30.11%.

ZUNHEBOTO: Voting started as per schedule at 7 am in Zunheboto town. At the time of reporting at 11:30 am, 37% of votes had been cast at 14 polling stations of Zunheboto town.

MON: In Mon district, no untoward incident was reported from any polling station. Meanwhile voter turnout reported in the nine constituencies of the district as of 1:00 pm was:  41 A/C Tizit - 73.00%; 42 A/C Wakching - 77.40%; 43 A/C Tapi - 67.30%; 44 A/C Phomching - 53.34%; 45 A/C Tehok - 61.59%; 46 A/C Mon Town - 74.39%; 47 A/C Aboi - 65.22%; 48 A/C Moka - 61.89%; 55 A/C Tobu - 75.82%.    

TUENSANG: In Tuensang town too, the electioneering process for the parliamentary election went peacefully. Strict one man one vote was maintained in five polling stations and the voters were viewed under CCTV screen. The government polling officers along with the district administration, BLO and sector office bearers stressed on clean and fair election.

BHANDARI (Wokha): Election to the lone Nagaland Lok Sabha seat under 40 A/C Bhandari was held successfully and peacefully in all the 76 polling stations. 

PUGHOBOTO: The polling process in 13-Pughoboto Assembly Constituency was conducted peacefully and the voter turnout was 93.61%.

PEREN: All the 117 polling stations of 6 Tening A/C and 7 Peren A/C saw a peaceful process. The total turnout for both 6 Tening A/C and 7 Peren A/C were approximately 77.97 %.

CHANGTONGYA: The parliamentary election in 14 polling stations under the jurisdiction of Sector Magistrate and SDO (C) Changtongya M.S. Tongpang concluded peacefully. 7,778 electors exercised their franchise out of the total 9,354 electors. The poll percentage in the sector was 83.10%.

Phek: According to DC’s Office Phek, a total of 197 polling stations were set up in Phek district: 16th AC Pfutsero – 35; 17th AC Chizami – 31; 18th AC Chozuba – 43; 19th AC Phek – 37 and; 20th AC Meluri – 51 polling stations. 1,04,875 voters have been enrolled under Phek district. Kuzholuzo Neinu, Minister R&B, & Parliamentary Affairs, paid a visit to several polling stations in Phek town and also exercised his franchise at the 15 poll station, CMHS, where the highest number of voters were enrolled. Webcasting was done for the several polling booths in the district headquarter. The polling process in all the 197 polling station went smoothly, except for a reported EVM technical failure in Sekrazu, which was replaced promptly.