While North Goa saw 79.84 per centof its population show up to polling booths, South Goa saw a turnout of 78.15 per cent.Sanquelim remained the highest with a turnout of 89.64 per cent.
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While North Goa has a turnout of 75.33 per cent, 75.26 per cent of South Goa district's population has made it to the polling booths. Sanquelim, the home constituency of CM Pramod Sawant remains the highest witha turnout of 88.07 per cent.
While North Goa district has an approximate turnout of 60.02 per cent, South Goa's is at 60.32 per cent.
The voting percentage on Monday till 1 pmstood at44.63 per cent inGoa.
As per the Election Commission data, NorthGoaregistered 44.14 per cent while SouthGoaregistered 45.05 per cent voting till 1 pm.
CM Sawant's Sanquelim had the highest turnout so far with 54 per cent.
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GoaChief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday claimed the BJP will win more than 22 seats in the 40-member state Assembly, the polling for which is currently underway, and said he will continue to hold the top post if his party forms government in the coastal state. After casting his vote at a booth in Sankhalim constituency of NorthGoadistrict, Sawant also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to him in the morning over phone and conveyed his best wishes for the Assembly polls.
Goa reported 11.04 per cent voting during the first two hours of Monday, since voting got underway at 7 am, according to statistics issued by the state's Chief Electoral Officer.
The highest voting was reported in Chief Minister Pramod Sawant's Sanquelim constituency where 14.32 per cent voters cast ballots.
The least voting was reported at the Shiroda Assembly constituency in South Goa where 5.6 per cent voting was reported.
"I urge all people of Goa to come out and vote for a stable government," Sawant told reporters after voting at a polling booth in the Kothambi village in Sanquelim Assembly constituency.
People in Goa are cooperative. There are no major political clashes. The elections will be free and fair. The ECI andall political parties deserve appreciation. This year I expect more people will come to the polling booths, saysGoa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai.
Voting begins in all assembly seats in Goa and Uttarakhand, besides 55 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh in the second phase of the state polls, with chief ministers Pramod Sawant and Pushkar Singh Dhami, former CM Harish Rawat and jailed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan among the prominent candidates in the fray.
It is a high-stakes election for the ruling BJP and a litmus test for the Modi government's policies that the Congress, AAP and other opposition parties have targeted during their campaign.
Goa will vote on Monday to decide the fate of 301 candidates who are in the fray for 40 Assembly seats, for which all preparations have been made.
Asserting that there is a silent wave in his favour, Utpal Parrikar, elder son of late Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who is contesting the February 14 Assembly election as an independent candidate from the Panaji seat, has said he was a favoured choice after his father's death in 2019, but was denied poll ticket by the BJP due to local politics.
Leaders of major political parties and alliances expressed confidence of forming a government ahead of the February 14 assembly polls, as campaigning wound to a close on Saturday.