Panaji: High voter turnout was witnessed in two Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa with 75 per cent polling taking place on Saturday.
Nearly 74.65 per cent voting was registered in the coastal state till 5 pm.
76.3 per cent voting was registered in North Goa while 73.06 per cent voting was registered in South Goa.
Over a million voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in North Goa and South Goa constituencies. The total electorate is evenly balanced between men and women.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was amongst the early voters in the coastal state.
In Goa, former chief minister Ravi Naik of the Congress is taking on three times MP and former Union minister Sripad Naik in North Goa which is considered a BJP bastion.
Aleixo Reginaldo, has replaced sitting MP Francisco Sardinha as the Congress candidate in South Goa. According to local media reports, he is finding the going not so easy in the South Goa constituency which has returned a Congress candidate 10 times in 14 Lok Sabha polls. On 12 instances, the candidate has been a Roman Catholic.
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