Patna (PTI): A record voter turnout of 68.79 per cent was registered provisionally at close of polling in 122 seats in the second and final phase of assembly elections in Bihar on Tuesday, Chief Electoral Officer Vinod Singh Gunjiyal said.

In the first phase of voting on November 6, 65.08 per cent of the electorate had exercised their franchise.

“Total voter turnout of both phases is 66.90 per cent (provisional), which is 9.6 per cent more than the last assembly polls,” Gunjiyal said.

The high-stakes assembly elections is seen as a veritable referendum on the state’s longest-serving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The turnout percentage will further increase as the Election Commission has not compiled the data of 2,000 polling booths, out of a total of 45,399 booths, the CEO said.

“After

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