Srinagar: Less than half a percent voting was recorded in Pulwama district, spread over four assembly segments, in the final phase of the Anantnag parliamentary seat on Monday.
Election conducting officials said that 124 votes were cast in Tral, 1041 in Pampore, 264 in Rajpora and 154 in Pulwama till 9 a.m. “The overall voting percentage stands at 0.45 percent at the end of two hours of polling,” the official added
Pulwama district has 351,314 electors including 181,259 males, 169,508 females, 541 service electors (533 male and eight female) and six transgender voters. 450 polling stations have been set up across the district.
The candidates in the fray are Hasnain Masoodi of Jammu Kashmir National Conference, Sofi Yousuf of BJP, Ghulam Ahmad Mir of Congress, Mehbooba Mufti of Jammu Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party, Nisar Ahmad Wani of Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, Choudhary Zaffar Ali of Jammu Kashmir People’s Conference, Sanjay Kumar Dhar of Manav Adhikar Party, Surinder Singh of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) and Independents Imtiyaz Ahmad Rather, Ridwana Sanam, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Zubair Masoodi, Shams Khwaja, Ali Mohammad Wani, Ghulam Mohammad Wani, Kyasir Ahmed Sheikh, Manzoor Ahmad Khan and Mirza Sajad Hussain Beigh.
The Anantnag and Kulgam districts of Anantnag constituency went to the polls on April 23 and April 29, respectively.
