West Bengal election phase 2 polling crosses 78 pc till 3 pm

The polling percentage in the first eight hours till 3 p.m. on Wednesday in the second phase of West Bengal Assembly elections for 142 constituencies has been recorded at 78.68.

This is marginally lower than the 78.77 per cent recorded in the first six hours of



April 23 voting in the first phase in 152 Assembly constituencies.

With a few hours of polling left till 6 p.m., the Election Commission of India (ECI) is confident that the polling percentage in the second phase will be around 93 per cent, as recorded in the first phase.