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Record 64.66 pc polling in first phase of Bihar assembly elections

Patna, Nov 6 (UNI) A record 64.66 per cent of the nearly 3.75 crore electorate exercised their franchise on Thursday, stretching across 121 seats in round one of the two-phase Bihar Assembly polls amid tight security arrangements, with the authorities describing voting as overall peaceful, barring some stray incidents.
This is the highest polling percentage in the state since the first Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 1951, an Election Commission official said.
"Voting was peaceful," said an EC official collating the figures.
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