Patna: Bihar recorded the highest-ever voter turnout of nearly 65 per cent, provisionally, at the close of polling in 121 seats in the first phase of assembly elections on Thursday, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vinod Singh Gunjiyal said.

Addressing a press conference, Gunjiyal said the poll percentage will increase further, as data from 41,943 booths of the total 45,341 have been compiled so far.

"At the close of polling at 6 pm, around 64.46 per cent voter turnout was recorded. But this figure is provisional," he said.

"The polling percentage will increase as people who arrived at the booths before the close of polling are still voting," he said.

The Election Commission, in a statement issued in New Delhi, said the turnout was slightly higher at 64.66 per cent.

In the last assembly

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