Kerala witnessed the highest turnout of 54.24 per cent till 3 PM among 14 states and Union Territories where 91 constituencies went to polls on Thursday.
In Delhi, voting percentage was about 52 per cent, followed by Jammu which witnessed 49.46 per cent and in Andaman Nicobar 48.98 per cent people cast their votes by 3 PM, as per provisional figures made available by the Election Commission.
Jammu recorded 43.73 per cent polling till 1 PM. Chandigarh witnessed 42.03 per cent polling till 3 PM, said EC officials. Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal of Congress is pitted in a triangular contest with BJP's Kirron Kher and AAP's Gul Panag.
Haryana, where all 10 Lok Sabha polls went to polls on Thursday, recorded 42.77 per cent till 3 PM. It recorded 33.62 per cent till 1 PM.
Uttar Pradesh, where polling was held in 10 Lok Sabha seats, recorded 44.74 per cent till that time, against 35.22 per cent till 1 PM.
Odisha recorded a total of 42.38 per cent polling till 3 PM. Lakshadweep witnessed 41.39 per cent till 3 PM, while Jharkhand recorded 38.91 per cent till that time, according to Election Commission officials.
In the polling on Thursday, nearly 11 crore voters are eligible to vote in 91 seats spread across 14 states, including Delhi -national capital region and the riot-hit Muzaffarnagar.
This is the third round in the nine-phase elections which began on April 7 and will conclude on May 12.
In Bihar, where six seats went to polls, a total of 37.44 per cent voters had cast their votes till 3 PM. 10 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra witnessed 30.88 per cent turnout, while in Madhya Pradesh it was 36.46 per cent till 3 PM.
Nine seats in MP went to polls today. In the Bastar Lok Sabh seat in Chhattisgarh, the poll percentage recorded till 3 PM was 30.72 per cent. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, seven Union ministers including Kapil Sibal, Kamal Nath, Shashi Tharoor (all of Congress), Ajit Singh of RLD and former army chief V K Singh and Harsh Vardhan (both BJP) are the key nominees among the 1,419 candidates in fray in this round.
Ten of the 80 constituencies in politically key Uttar Pradesh went to polls today. These are communally-sensitive and riot-hit Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Kairana, Aligarh, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautambudh Nagar and Bulandshahar.
With Narendra Modi aide Amit Shah's controversial "revenge" remarks in Muzaffarnagar having stirred a controversy, significance in attached to polling in these ten constituencies.
Prominent among those contesting in this phase are Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh pitted against former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh (BJP) in Baghpat, recent RLD entrant actress-politician Jaya Prada (Bijnor), film stars Nagma (Meerut) and Raj Babbar (Ghaziabad)-- of both Congress, AAP's Shazia Ilmi and former Army chief and BJP's V K Singh in Ghaziabad, and riot accused Kadir Rana (BSP) in Muzaffarnagar.
Seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi went to polls with a total of 150 candidates including Congress' minister Kapil Sibal, former minister Ajay Maken, Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan, former DPCC chief J P Agarwal and Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi and Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari.
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