Introduced for the first time on EVMs in the Bihar
Assembly poll, the None Of The Above (NOTA) option proved more popular
for the voters than many mainstream political parties, including Jitan
Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha(Secular) and AIMIM of Asauddin
Owaisi. In 38 constituencies, NOTA was the “third choice,” while in one
it registered about 9,000 hits
According to the
State Election Commission report, out of total 3,80,97, 288 voters who
exercised their franchise, altogether 7.61 lakh (2.5 per cent) of them
pressed the NOTA button as their first choice. This has become the
maximum number of NOTA votes polled in the Bihar poll so far.
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