Voting for the bypoll for the Erode East Assembly constituency concluded on Wednesday peacefully and the voter turnout was above 65 per cent, election authorities said.People turned up enthusiastically at the polling stations to cast their votes in the bypoll to the Erode East segment and those who were in the queue at the closing time were issued tokens and allowed to vote, they said. The polling was held from 7 am to 6 pm and during afternoon the voting was sluggish.
Three EVMs were used as 46 candidates, including 44 independents, are in the fray and the contest appears to be only between the ruling DMK’s VC Chandirakumar and Tamil nationalist party, Naam Tamizhar Katchi’s (NTK) M K Seethalakshmi.