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LIVE: 78% voter turnout in Assam polls phase 1 recorded, Assam First Phase Assembly Election voting %, Assam First Phase Live Updates, 1st phase 4th April Assam Assembly Constituency, Assam Voting Patterns Live, and Assam Election Voting Percentage Live Coverage 2016
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Phase 1 Live Voting Updates of Assam Assembly Election 2016
- 78% total voter turnout recorded in Assam Phase 1
- 75%voter turnout recorded in Assam till 5 PM
- 72%voter turnout recorded in Assam till 3 PM
- Biswanath constituency records highest 75.7% turnout
- Dibrugarh (Assam): BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Assam Sarbananda Sonowal casts his vote
- 65%voter turnout recorded in Assam till 2:30 PM
- A voter collapsed and passed away at a polling station in Itakhuli in Assam's Tinsukia district, reports
- 35%voter turnout recorded in Assam till 1 PM
- 32% voter turnout recorded in Assam till 12 noon
- 11:00 am : 20 percent voter turnout recorded in Assam
- 100 percent sure that people will vote for us: Gogoi
- 9:00 AM: 12% voter turnout recorded till 9 AM
- Tarun Gogoi Casts his vote in Jorhat. Says Congress is winning and He will be the CM
- Voting Starts on 4th April Morning at 7:00 AM in all 65 Constituencies.
- Voters Queue up outside Polling booths.
- In Assam, a total of 95,11,732 voters will decide the fate of 539 candidates, including Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Titabar constituency, and the BJP's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal in Majuli.
- The first phase will witness mostly direct contest between the ruling Congress and the BJP- Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)- Bodoland Peoples' Front (BPF) alliance, though the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), led by perfume baron Moulana Badruddin Ajmal, is contesting in 27 seats.
- The Congress is contesting in all the 65 constituencies in the first phase while the BJP is contesting in 54 and its alliance partners--AGP in 11 and BPF in three, the AIUDF in 27, the CPI and CPM in 10 each with CPI(ML)(L) in six along with 60 others of unrecognised parties and 13 independents.
- Prominent Congress candidates in the fray include Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi from Titabor, Speaker of the outgoing Assembly Pranab Gogoi from Sibsagar and former Union minister and prominent tea tribe leader Paban Singh Ghatowar. The BJP's key candidates in the first phase include Union minister and party's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal from Majuli and Jorhat Lok Sabha MP Kamakhya Prasad Tasa from Titabor. AGP's working president Atul Bora is also an important face in the fray.