{"id":1498,"date":"2018-03-01T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:33:19","slug":"86-turnout-in-meghalaya-repoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/03\/01\/86-turnout-in-meghalaya-repoll\/","title":{"rendered":"86% turnout in Meghalaya repoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section1\">\n<div class=\"Normal\">SHILLONG: About 86 per cent voters exercised their franchise during re-polling at one polling station Raliang constituency in <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Meghalaya\">Meghalaya<\/a> on Thursday, chief electoral officer FR Kharkongor said.<br \/>\nThe re-poll was ordered at Kyndong Tuber polling station after polling officers stopped voting on February 27 following a mix up of voting machines, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last8brdiv\">\n<div class=\"sponsor_block clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"last7brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Till 4pm at the close of the poll today, 544 of the total 628 voters cast their votes in Kyndong Tuber polling station and this accounted to about 86 per cent of polling, Kharkongor told PTI.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last6brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last5brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>The re-poll was by and large peaceful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last4brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last3brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Polling for 59 of the 60 assembly seats was held in the northeastern state on February 27. Around 84.86 per cent votes were polled on that day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last1brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Polling was countermanded in the <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Williamnagar\">Williamnagar<\/a> constituency due to the killing of NCP candidate Jonathone N Sangma on February 18.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"brandwire_disclaimer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG: About 86 per cent voters exercised their franchise during re-polling at one polling station Raliang constituency in Meghalaya on Thursday, chief electoral officer FR Kharkongor said. The re-poll was ordered at Kyndong Tuber polling station after polling officers stopped voting on February 27 following a mix up of voting machines, he said. Till 4pm at the close of the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/03\/01\/86-turnout-in-meghalaya-repoll\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}