The third stage of the vote will take place on the remaining 78 seats on November 7.
Patna:
The voting percentage in the second phase of the ballot out of 94 seats in the Bihar assembly elections rose to 55.70 after the figures were updated by the electoral commission on Wednesday.
The provisional voting figure until Tuesday night was 54.64, which rose slightly after the voting panel updated the data with the arrival of more entries from those constituencies.
Still, the revised turnout in the second round of voting in the respective seats is slightly lower than it was in the 2015 polls at 56.17%, according to Election Commission statistics.
The updated figures show that in the second stage of the ballot, the participation rate of women was 58.80% against 52.92 among men.
While the assembly constituency of Minapur in Muzaffarpur district recorded the highest 65.10% of the vote in the second phase, Kumhrar in the state capital experienced the lowest voter mobilization at 35 , 69%.
Bankipur headquarters from where actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha’s son Luv Sinha fights for a congressional ticket against BJP MP Nitin Nabin, even after revision the percentage remained at 35.89, according to the EC figures.
At the headquarters of Raghopur, where Grand Alliance chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav is in the fray, the updated vote figure was 57.97%, while his 58.59% in the constituency of Hasanpur from his older brother Tej Pratap Yadav.
The third and final stage of voting will take place on the remaining 78 seats on November 7.
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