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The polling percentage in Himachal Pradesh’s day long voting on Saturday the 12th of November 2022 has been revised by the Election Commission of India.

On Sunday the ECI said that around 75.6 per cent polling percentage was recorded.

On Saturday state election officials stated that 66 per cent of the electorate had exercised their franchise.
“As per the reports received at State Headquarters, the approximate poll percentage in the state stands at 75.6 per cent,” said Chief Electoral Officer Maneesh Garg.

He said that the poll percentage through Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) was 74.6 per cent. Besides this, 1 per cent of postal ballots had been received already taking the overall turnout to 75.6 per cent till now and nearly 2 per cent of postal ballots are yet to be received.
The highest polling percentage of 85.25 per cent was reported from Doon Assembly constituency and the lowest polling percentage of 62.53 per cent was in Shimla at the end of the poll.