Assembly Elections 2018: 72.12 % polling in Rajasthan at 5pm, Telangana records 56.17 pc polling till 3 pm

Follow the latest updates on the 2018 Assembly Elections - Deccan Herald has everything you need to know from the five states going to the polls with our reporters on the ground.

Rajasthan: Visuals from Jhalawar as polling concludes at polling booth no. 31(A). Voter turnout recorded at this particular booth is 73.83%.

Rajasthan records 72.12 % polling turnout in assembly elections for 199 seats.

Rajasthan: Voter turnout recorded till 3 PM is 59.43%

Telangana: 56.17% voter turn out till 3pm

Rajasthan: Tight vigil being kept on polling booths through webcasting.

Rajasthan: Vehicles were vandalised and set ablaze after clashes broke out between two groups at a polling booth in Fatehpur.

Telangana: K Chandrashekar Rao casts his vote in Siddipet

42 per cent turnout in Rajasthan till 1 pm

#RajasthanElections2018

Voter turn out by 1pm

Pushkar 45.44%

Garhi 43.98%

Bayfu 46.87%

Jamwa Ramgarh 44%

BJP MP Bandaru Dattatreya casts his vote at booth no.229 in Ramnagar of Musheerabad constituency in Hyderabad

Telangana: Sania Mirza cast her vote at Film Nagar Cultural Center in Hyderabad

ANI Photo

Around 22 percent voting recorded till 11AM in Rajasthan

DH Photo/Tabheena Anjum

PV Sindhu returned without voting

Voters, includingshuttler PV Sindhu, returned home without casting their franchiseat some places in Telangana as EVM malfunctioned in 229 polling booths across the state.

Sindhureturned from the Kokapet polling booth saying that she will be back after a while.

The voting to the 119 Assembly seats in the state saw 10% turnout in the first two hours, said CEO's office.

In many places, voters have complained that their names were removed from the voters' list despite having a valid voters' ID card.

At Amber Fort

Congress leader Ashok Gehlot cast his vote at polling booth no. 106 in Jodhpur

Union Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat cast his vote at polling booth 128 in Jodhpur

Actor Allu Arjun stands in a queue to cast his vote at booth no. 152 in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.

(ANI Photo)

As many as 4.7 crore voters on rolls as Rajasthan goes to Assembly polls on December 7

The voting in 199 constituencies will begin at 8 AM and continue till 5 PM.

Read more here.

The stage is set for a single-phase polling in Telangana on Friday

The fate of 1,821 candidates contesting in 119 Assembly segments across the state will be decided on Friday.

Read more here.

Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria offers prayers at Shiv temple in Udaipur before casting his vote. #RajasthanElections2018 pic.twitter.com/SAxF1UPc8e

— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2018

Telangana: State Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao casts his vote in polling booth no. 102 in Siddipet constituency. #TelanganaElections2018 pic.twitter.com/2q2tqbgoXl

— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2018

Rajasthan: polling begins

Polling to 199 Assembly constituencies in Rajasthan began at8 am.

Telangana: polling begins

Polling began across 119 Assembly constituenciesin Telangana at7 am. Model polling booths, sakhi booths, polling personnel all in place, said ECI spokesperson.