According to official sources, the entire re-poll was peacefully.

Earlier in the day re-poll in five polling constituencies in Asom begins following the mechanical failure of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the first phase of Assembly elections on April 3.

The five polling stations includes polling station number 64(Patharkandi), 135(North Karimganj), 171(North karimganj), 105 (Lahwal) and 04(Chabua).

According to the State Chief Electoral Officer JP Prakash, the bus carrying the EVMs of one of the polling station in North Karimganj (171) met an accident in which the papers got destroyed. Out of the remaining four, EVMs of three polling stations got stuck due to mechanical problems. In the Chabua polling station, miscreants created trouble as result of which the EVM got damaged.

On April 3, the first phase of voting was peaceful with a total voter turnout around 68 percent for the 65 Assembly seats, except for one stray incident, at polling station no 4 in Chabua Constituency, in Upper Asom, where one EVM was destroyed.

A total of 92, 07,512 voters were listed in the first phase of the poll, which was held at 9723 polling stations across the state.

Constituencies in the Upper Asom region had reported the maximum turnout, though the number of urban voters was less at the start of the voting.

The three Upper Asom Districts of Dhemaji, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia had recorded the maximum polling, whereas the turnout in urban centres of Guwahati (Sadar), Jorhat and Silchar was comparatively low.

Minority areas of the Barak Valley and Central Asom had recorded a low voter turnout.

The highest number of candidates contesting for the election was from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It has 65 candidates, followed by 64 from Congress, 54 from Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), 25 from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and eight each from Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M).

The second and last phase of polls in Asom will be held on April 10. (ANI)