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By Our Staff Correspondent
BIDAR, OCT. 13. A voter turnout of 40 per cent was recorded in today's Lok Sabha byelection from Bidar. This is the third lowest figure ever recorded. Polling was peaceful and no untoward incident was reported. The second general elections to the Lok Sabha saw the lowest poll percentage. As a two-member constituency after its merger with Gulbarga, Bidar had 14,36,748 voters, of whom only 5,31,073 exercised their franchise, registering a polling percentage of 36.96. In the 1980 elections, only 2,66,925 of the 2,76,075 voters (39.95 per cent) turned up at the polling booths. The byelection, necessitated by the death of BJP leader Ramachandra Veerappa, 5,49,910 of the 13,74,776 voters (40 per cent) exercised their franchise. The highest poll percentage of 63.27 was witnessed in the 1999 elections. In the other elections, the figures were between 45 per cent (in 1984) to 60 per cent (in the 2004 general elections). The Assembly-wise break-up of the polling percentage in the byelection is as follows: Aurad - 44, Bidar - 43, Bhalki - 42, Humnabad - 37, Hulsoor -32, Basavakalyan - 38, Aland - 42 and Kamalapur - 42.
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