Mumbai: As voting continued in six Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai, the financial capital witnessed a low voter turnout of 27.28 percent till 1:00 pm.
This even as several Bollywood celebrities and industrialists turned up at their designated polling booths to exercise their franchise and made an appeal to residents to vote in large numbers.
As per the Election Commission, the turnout recorded till 1:00 pm for the six constituencies in the city were: Mumbai North (26.78 percent), Mumbai North Central (28.05 percent), Mumbai North East (28.82 percent), Mumbai North West (28.41 percent), Mumbai South (24. 46 percent) and Mumbai South Central (27.21 per cent).
Notable individuals such as Union Minister Piyush Goyal, industrialist Anil Ambani, and actor Akshay Kumar cast their votes in the early hours of voting.
Later, several other actors, including Paresh Rawal, Shahid Kapoor, Sanya Malhotra, Rajkumar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao were spotted at various polling booths across Mumbai. Parents-to-be Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh were too.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and star batter Suryakumar Yadav also voted by early afternoon.
All 49 parliamentary constituencies in the fifth round of the Lok Sabha elections saw a cumulative voter turnout of 36.73 percent till 1 pm, as per the data shared by the Election Commission.
According to the poll body, Ladakh recorded the highest voter turnout (52.02 percent) followed by West Bengal (48.41 percent), Jharkhand (41.89 percent), Uttar Pradesh (39.55 percent), Odisha (35.31 percent), Jammu and Kashmir (34.79 percent), Bihar (34.62 percent) and Maharashtra (27.78 percent).
As per the ECI, over 8.95 crore voters, including 4.69 crore men, 4.26 crore women, and 5,409 third-gender electors, will decide the fate of 695 candidates in the fifth phase of polling.
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