Ahmedabad, 17 December 2012

According to Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat, Smt Anita Karwal, Gujarat has witnessed around 70.20% average turnout today.

According to Karwal Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar and Panchmahal districts have witnessed around 72% voting while lowest 64.5% voting has been witnessed in Kutch district.

The details of other districts are following:

Ahmedabad 70%
Kutch 64.5%
Banaskantha 72%
Patan 70%
Mehsana 71%
Sabarkantha 72%
Gandhinagar 72%
Anand 71%
Kheda 70%
Panchmahal 72%
Dahod 68%
Vadodara 70%

Smt Karwal said barring the incident of stone pelting and firing in response in Tarasang village of Shehra taluka in Panchmahal district, the election has been peaceful.

She said out of 23,318 electronic voting machines, 0.02% faced technical problem.