Indian Express Exclusive! West Bengal elections LIVE: CPIM activist killed in Murshidabad as Phase three polling is underway Altogether 418 candidates, including 34 female, are in fray in the 62 seats spread over Murshidabad, Nadia, Burdwan districts and north Kolkata.

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West Bengal elections LIVE: CPIM activist killed in Murshidabad as Phase three polling is underway

Altogether 418 candidates, including 34 female, are in fray in the 62 seats spread over Murshidabad, Nadia, Burdwan districts and north Kolkata.

Altogether 418 candidates, including 34 female, are in fray in the 62 seats spread over Murshidabad, Nadia, Burdwan districts and north Kolkata. (Source: ANI) - See more at: 

With one lakh security personnel deployed to look after law and order, polling for the crucial third phase of West Bengal Assembly election began on Thursday at 7 am.

Polling will be held in 62 seats, including seven constituencies in Kolkata.

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Altogether 418 candidates, including 34 female, are in fray in the 62 seats spread over Murshidabad, Nadia, Burdwan districts and north Kolkata.

Voting began at 7 am in 16,461 polling stations and will go on till 6 PM.

The Election Commission has identified 3,401 hamlets in the phase as vulnerable where extra security and confidence building measures were taken.

LIVE UPDATES:

10: 45 am: 18.29 per cent voting in third phase of polling in West Bengal till 9 am

10.12 am: Goons seen with pistols in Burdwan district during the third phase polling.

8.45 am: Clashes between CPI(M) and TMC workers reported in Murshidabad district. One CPI(M) workers dead after being hit by a crude bomb.

8.35 am: Congress alleges their booth worker being abducted by TMC activists. The party also lodged a complain at the police station

7.40 am: Over 1.37 crore voters, including 65.8 lakh females, are registered in the electoral rolls at these constituencies.

7. 35 am: Senior Congress leader Soumen Mitra casts his vote in North Kolkata.

7.23 am: To avoid the scorching sun as the day progresses, many voters were ready to exercise their franchise early in the morning.

7.00 am: Third phase polling for the West Bengal Assembly elections beings for 62 seats.

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