Over ten per cent votes were polled in five assembly constituencies till 10 am in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday.
Here is the breakdown of the votes polled in five assemblysegments of the district:
Karnah: 4020 votes polled out of 37181; Kupwara: 13380 votespolled out of 117538; Lolab: 11723 votes polled out of 111559; Handwara: 11723votes polled out of 98609; Langate: 6386 votes polled out of 76199
Polling for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections startedat 7 am for the Baramulla seat.
Nine candidates National Conference’s (NC) Akbar Lone;Peoples Democratic Peoples’ (PDP) Abdul Qayoom Wani; Congress’s Farooq AhmedMir; Peoples Conference’s (PC) Raja Aijaz Ali; Er Abdul Rasheed Independent;Najeeb Naqvi as Independent; Jehangir Khan NPP; Javeed Ahmed Qureshi asIndependent and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) M. M War.