Kolkata, Apr 20 (UNI) West Bengal recorded 81.91 percent turnout among the 5.6 million electorates in Friday's first phase election to three Lok Sabha seats of Cooch Behar, Alipurduar (ST), and Jalpaiguri, the state election officials said in a statement on Saturday.
Despite near heat wave conditions and scorching sun, Jalpaiguri, where the polling was almost incident-free, marked the highest 83.66 percent polling followed by Cooch Behar, where stray incidents took place, with 82.17 percent, and tribal-dominated Alipurduar with the lowest 79.76 percent, said the Chief electoral office in the state.
The state has altogether seven-phase polling with the second phase on April 26 for Darjeeling, Balurghat, and Raiganj, also in North Bengal.