Proud voters:Women waiting to vote at Edapadi town in Salem district.
Salem/Namakkal:
While Salem registered a staggering 81.24 percent polling, a record of sorts since the 1957 elections, in the Assembly polls on Wednesday, Namakkal district did one better to post 82 percent.
Of the 11 segments in Salem, seven registered above 80 percent while the rest recorded above 70 percent. Veerapandi registered a whopping 89.01 percent of polling at the close followed by
Sankagiri (in percentage) - 85.98 ,
Edapadi 85.41,
Omalur 83.36,
Yercaud ST 83.23, G
engavalli Reserve 81.6,
Attur Reserve 80.76,
Salem South 78.71,
Salem West 78.06,
Mettur 75.06 and
Salem North 74.40 percent.
The polling at Taramangalam and Sankagiri towns falling under Sankagiri Assembly and Edapadi town in Edapadi saw good response from the voters since this morning. Within an hour, 15 percent of polling was recorded in various booths in the 11 segments of the district while it jumped to 35 per cent at noon.
The first three hours of polling saw Omalur Assembly record 44 per cent followed by Salem South with 42 percent.
At 3 pm, Yercaud ST posted the highest with 70 per cent followed by Edapadi 67, Salem South 63, Attur Reserve 61 and Omalur 60. Sankagiri, where Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S Arumugam, contested, Veerapandi, where his son A Rajendiran was DMK candidate and Mettur from where PMK president G K Mani sought re-election, all recorded 59 percent.
But the pace of polling picked up soon after with many segments crossing the 70 percent mark. Yercaud registered a whopping 78.7 per cent followed by Veerapandi (78), Edapadi (72.7), Sankagiri (70.2 per cent) and Omalur (70) for a total percentage of 67.21.
The following was the percentage of votes recorded in the six Assembly segments in Namakkal district by close of polling at 5 p.m:
Rasipuram (SC) 81,
Senthamangalam (ST) 81,
Namakkal 82,
Paramathi-Velur 80,
Tiruchengode 82, and
Kumarapalayam 86.
By the end of the day, the district's most inaccessible booths at Kelur and Kedamalai villages in Rasipuram Assembly segment had registered 76.6 and 75 per cent, respectively. Election officials said that close to 20 per cent of the polling was registered in the last two hours.
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