Chennai, Oct. 6 -- With over 80 per cent of the total 4.35 lakh electorate casting their ballots sealing the fate of 49 candidates,polling for the by-elections to the Madurantakam and Dharapuram Reserved Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu passed off peacefully on Tuesday evening.
The polling, which began at 0700 hrs in the morning, saw brisk turnout all through the day with enthusiastic voters queuing up at605 booths to exercise their franchise, ended at 1800 hrs.
The gates of polling booths were shut at 6.00 p.m and those who were standing in the queues would be issued tokens. All of them would be allowed to vote after which the polling process would come to an end. Later, the EVMs, in which the votes were cast, would be sealed and taken to st...