Hyderabad, Dec. 2 -- The voting percentage for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal corporation (GHMC) held on Tuesday is announced to be 45.7 per cent for about 149 division, while, the only division-Old Malakpet to have re-polling on December 3.

However, The voting percentage this year was just 0.69 per cent more than the 2016 GHMC polls, which calculated about 45.3% for 150 divisions. For a total of 74.13 lakh voters, only over 22 lakh exercised their franchise by 4 p.m. By 5 p.m.

What was expected to be a noisy and fierce election turned out to be a damp squib, as the GHMC elections came to an end on a very lacklustre note, with less than half the city's population turning out to vote even until 5 p.m.

The voting percentage remained ver...