Aizawl: Balloting to elect a new government in the northeastern border state of Mizoram ended peacefully Monday, with around 82 percent of voters exercising their franchise, officials said.
"Over 81 percent of the total 690,860 voters cast their ballot across the state," said Mawia, the joint chief electoral officer of Mizoram.
In the last assembly elections of December 2008, the polling percentage was 80.02 percent. The voting percentage of men voters was 78.77 percent while 81.24 percent women cast their votes last time.
According to the election officials, this time also the percentage of votes cast by women voters was expected to be higher than men.
"Voting passed off peacefully, with not even a small incident reported from anywhere in the state," an official told IANS over phone.
Long lines formed in front of polling booths even before the 7 a.m. opening time of the polling process, and many voters were seen waiting in queues to cast their votes even after the scheduled closing time of 4 p.m.
The ballots will be counted Dec 9.
