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Polling for the 16th Presidential election commenced at 10 am and closed at 5 pm. Of 736 electors incl 727 members of parliament & 9 legislative assembly members permitted by EC to vote, 730 cast their votes. Voter turnout of 99.18% registered, said PC Mody, Secretary General, Rajya Sabha.

Assisting returning officers of various states will start arriving with sealed ballot boxes via roads and flights today evening itself. Necessary security arrangements for safe transit from the airport to parliament house made, he said.

Voting for the presidential poll ended on Monday with the 98.90 per cent of the electors permitted to vote in the parliament house exercising their franchise,



Returning Officer PC Mody said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi cast their votes at the parliament house. Voting also took place in state assemblies across the country. Going by the stand taken by various parties, NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is set to win the poll against joint Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha. Briefing reporters after the voting, Returning Officer Mody said out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and nine MLAs permitted by the Election Commission to vote at the Parliament house, 728 (719 MPs and nine MLAs) cast their votes. Earlier, the officer had said that six MPs did not cast their vote, but the figure was revised to eight after recompilation of the data.
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