Gangtok, April 12 (IANS) Enthusiastic voters turned up at the polling booths Saturday for the lone Lok Sabha constituency of Sikkim.
A total of 362,326 voters, including 175,549 women, are eligible to cast their ballot.
Just six candidates are in the fray.
As many as 24.62 percent of the voters are in the age group of 18-25.
Balloting is taking place at 538 polling booths across the state.
Sitting MP Prem Das Rai of the Sikkim Democratic Front is re-contesting, while Akar Dhoj Limbu from the Congress, Nar Bahadur Khatiwara from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Kaushal Rai of Aam Aadmi Party are hoping to give him a fight.
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