Jaipur: About 59.64 per cent of 81 lakh voters on Thursday exercised their franchise in five Lok Sabha constituencies where polling ended for the second and final phase in Rajasthan.
It was about 9.4 per cent more than the 2009 LS polls in five constituencies, A K Jain, Chief Election Officer said.
There was no poll related violence in five constituencies, Jain claimed.
Barring one incident of clash between security forces and villagers in which five persons including four photo journalists were injured and vehicles were damaged after forces opened 14 rounds of fire at Satha village in Dausa district, the polling was nowhere affected or obstructed, DGP-Law and Order Navdeep Singh, said.
Polling was not either disturbed on Satha booth despite little clash outside due to women electors' identity issue in which mob of men folks tried to obstruct, he said, adding however an FIR was lodged by the police with Mahua police station related to attack on scribes who went for coverage.
Around 45,000 security personnels were on duty in the most sensitive five Lok Sabha seats in the state, he added.
Dausa seat recorded a tentative polling of 60.81 per cent, Alwar 65.14 per cent, Karauli-Dholpur 53.98, Bharatpur 56.7, Tonk- Sawaimadhopur 60.72 pc, Jain said, adding the final tally of poll percentage would be clear by tomorrow morning.
Poll fortune of 81 contestants, including two Union Ministers Namonarayan Meena (MoS finance) from Dausa, Jitendra Singh (MoS-sports) from Alwar, and former cricketer Mohammed Azaharruddin from Tonk-Swaimadhopur was sealed in EVMs.
Total 9,112 polling booths, of which 2,674 declared as critical, were guarded by 45,000 security personnel to ensure the free and fair poll.
First phase of polling in 20 of Rajasthan's 25 seats was held with an average of 63.63 per cent on April 17. An average of 62.9 per cent polling was held in both Ist and IInd phase in the state as against 48.4 per cent in 2009 LS polls. This time it was about 15 per cent higher, according to the CEO.
The CEO informed that Rs 1.05 crore cash was seized in preventive action during the electioneering period for the second phase.
Drugs worth Rs 1.12 crore under NDPS act and liquor worth Rs 5.01 crore were also seized during this period.
There was 3,828 cases of violation of Model Code of Conduct also, he said.
In all, in both the phases, Rs 6.14 crore in cash, liquor worth 17.12 crore and drug articles worth Rs 2.96 crore were seized across the state.
4,500 FIRs were registered and 1217 persons were arrested under preventive action in both the phases.
115 cases of paid news and 21,136 of violation of Model Code of Conduct were found.
A total of 673 complaints related to the polls were filed with the election department and 437 of them have been redressed, the CEO said.
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