Aizawl, April 19 -- Almost 60 percent of a total of 8,56,364 voters exercised their franchise for the election to the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat on Friday.

Official sources said the polling started at 7 AM and continued in some polling stations with voters who were already inside polling areas still waiting for their turns.

Polling was reported to be completely peaceful with no untoward incident being reported from anywhere, state election department officials said

The election department officials said though the actual poll percentage is not yet known, it is estimated to be almost 60, below the poll percentage in the last Lok Sabha polls held in 2019. The poll percentage in the 2019 Lok Sabha general elections in Mizoram constituency...