The Election Commission of India (ECI) said that the first phase of polling for the Lok Sabha elections ended in a "peaceful manner" on Thursday barring a few incidents of clashes. West Bengal and Tripura witnessed over 80 per cent voter turnout till 5 pm."The first phase of election has been successfully concluded. At some polling station, still, there are a few people who are in queues for voting. The elections were concluded in a peaceful manner barring few sporadic incidents," said the ECI in a statement."The size of the electorate for the first phase was 13.97 crore of which the women electors were 6.87 crore, electors of the third gender were 7,771 and the person with disabilities were over 14 lakhs.""The first phase of polling was conducted from 1.7 lakh polling stations across 20 states and UTs. In the first phase, 1,239 candidates were in the fray," officials of the electoral body stated at a press conference here.Besides West Bengal (2 seats) and Tripura (1 seat), Andaman ...
