<p class="title">Deputy Commissioner Hephsiba Rani Korlapati said the district, including Byndoor Assembly constituency which is part of Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency, recorded a voter turnout of 77.66%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district had recorded 78.51% of polling in the Assembly election held in 2018. “No untoward incidents were reported and it was peaceful overall,” she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Korlapati said that in the four Assembly segments of Kundapur, Kaup, Udupi and Karkala, the voter turnout was 75.91%, while in Byndoor it was 75.23 %. The whole of Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency recorded 75.91% polling. She added when compared to 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the voter turnout had risen by 1.45%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She attributed the successful voting in the district to the massive Sveep awareness programmes taken up in the district administration. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Elaborating over the polling percentage in Sakhi polling stations, the deputy commissioner said that the 40 Sakhi polling booths in the district had recorded 72.05% polling, wherein 26,930 voters of the total 37,374 had cast their votes. She said that there were a total of 4 persons with disabilities-friendly polling stations, manned by the persons with disabilities, in the district. The polling booths had recorded a voter turnout of 75.85%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Emphasising on the ethnic polling booths, Korlapati said that there were three such booths in the district, which had recorded 80.59% of polling.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She said that four tender votes and one challenge vote was cast in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 9,54,030 voters used EPIC to cast their votes while 1,94,670 voters used one of the 11 documents permitted by the election commission to exercise their franchise, Korlapati said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The excise department had seized 15,921 liters of liquor while police department has seized 11.70 liters of liquor since model code of conduct came into force, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">cVigil applications had received 273 complaints and 48 complaints were found to be fake. As many as 211 cases were disposed of within 100 minutes of receiving the complaints.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Udupi Superintendent of Police Nisha James was present.</p>
<p class="title">Deputy Commissioner Hephsiba Rani Korlapati said the district, including Byndoor Assembly constituency which is part of Shimoga Lok Sabha constituency, recorded a voter turnout of 77.66%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The district had recorded 78.51% of polling in the Assembly election held in 2018. “No untoward incidents were reported and it was peaceful overall,” she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Korlapati said that in the four Assembly segments of Kundapur, Kaup, Udupi and Karkala, the voter turnout was 75.91%, while in Byndoor it was 75.23 %. The whole of Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency recorded 75.91% polling. She added when compared to 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the voter turnout had risen by 1.45%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She attributed the successful voting in the district to the massive Sveep awareness programmes taken up in the district administration. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Elaborating over the polling percentage in Sakhi polling stations, the deputy commissioner said that the 40 Sakhi polling booths in the district had recorded 72.05% polling, wherein 26,930 voters of the total 37,374 had cast their votes. She said that there were a total of 4 persons with disabilities-friendly polling stations, manned by the persons with disabilities, in the district. The polling booths had recorded a voter turnout of 75.85%.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Emphasising on the ethnic polling booths, Korlapati said that there were three such booths in the district, which had recorded 80.59% of polling.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She said that four tender votes and one challenge vote was cast in the district.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 9,54,030 voters used EPIC to cast their votes while 1,94,670 voters used one of the 11 documents permitted by the election commission to exercise their franchise, Korlapati said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The excise department had seized 15,921 liters of liquor while police department has seized 11.70 liters of liquor since model code of conduct came into force, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">cVigil applications had received 273 complaints and 48 complaints were found to be fake. As many as 211 cases were disposed of within 100 minutes of receiving the complaints.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Udupi Superintendent of Police Nisha James was present.</p>