Udupi : Congress candidate Vinay Kumar Sorake along with his wife Daksha Sorake, daughter Dvithi Sorake and Son Dvishan Sorake caste thier vote at the Girls PU College in Udupi.
Udupi district total turnout of 30 percent at 11 am with byndoor 29.26 kunda 32.39 udupi 31.91 kaapu 33.99 karkala 32.43.
Madhwaraj came along with his mother Manorama Madhwaraj voted at Shree Narayanan Guru English Medium School, Malpe. Rajya Sabha MP Oscar Fernandes voted at Vivekananda School, Ajjarkad. Kundapur Congress candidate Gopal Poojary voted in Kanyana. Kundapur BJP candidate Halady Srinivas voted at Halady, while Congress candidate Rakesh Malli voted at Ankadakatte. Kota Srinivas Poojary came with his mother and voted in Kota.
Byndoor Assembly constituency, of the 2,22,427 voters, 1,08,154 are men, 1,14,259 are women and 14 others respectively. In Kundapur, the total number of voters are 1,99,575, of which 95,927 are men and 1,03,648 are women. In Udupi, there are 1,00,535 male voters, 1,06,892 female voters and 4 in other categories. The total number of voters in the Udupi Assembly constituency is 2,07,431. In Kaup Assembly constituency, there are 1,82,972 voters of which, 87,020 are men, 95,948 are women and 4 others. In Karkala, there are 1,81,010 voters of which, 86,714 are men, 94,294 are women and 2 others respectively.
In Udupi, 34 candidates will vie with each other for five constituencies in the district. 9.93 lac voters (4.78 lac men, 5.75 lac women) are eligible to cast their votes through 1,103 polling booths. 6,342 polling staff and 2,500 security personnel have been deployed to handle election work. There are ten pink booths in the district and 555 wheel chairs have been kept ready for the use of differently abled persons. The government model higher primary school at Tekkatte has been designated as polling booth for the differently abled. Three booths have been treated as tribal booths.
In Kaup and Kundapur constituencies, indelible ink will be smeared to the left middle fingers of voters as gram panchyat bypoll had taken place there recently. Counting of votes will take place on May 15 and result is expected by the same evening.