LUCKNOW: Starting on a sluggish note, voting across 56 constituencies, including Lucknow, in the fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on Sunday picked up pace through the day to end at an estimated 57 per cent, officials said. Polling was peaceful. The turnout was a marked improvement over the 2007 state elections when the turnout stood at a paltry 42 percent and an all time low of 36 percent in Lucknow, where Sunday it shot up to about 55 percent.
In other key places like Rae Bareli and Amethi, the constituencies of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi respectively, the voter turnout was recorded at about 57 per cent.