Voting is under way in bypolls to 4 Lok Sabha seats, including the politically- important Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, and 10 assembly constituencies spread across 10 states. Here are new updates Bhandara-Gondia Lok sabha constituency saw a short turnout of 22% till 3pm A temperature of around 45 degrees Celsius during the day seems to have kept voters away in the vast rural constituency where BJP's Hemant Patle is pitted against NCP's Madukar Kukde EC asserts extreme heat a reason for EVM malfunctioning West Bengal's Maheshtala records 62.85% polling till 3pm Shahkot registers 57% polling till 2.45pm Alghar Lok Sabha seat bypoll records 19.25% voting till 1pm Uttarakhand's Tharali records 26 per cent polling till 1pm UP's Kairana records just over 30 percent polling till 1pm Polling cancelled in multiple booths in Maharashtra’s Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha seat following EVM malfunctions Bengaluru's RR Nagar has recorded 34% polling till 1pm Punjab's Shahkot records 44% polling till 1pm UP: Polling in booths where incidents of dysfunctional EVM were reported has been extended till 6 pm 31.4 percent voting was recorded till 11am in Kerala's Chengannur Bhandara–Gondiya Lok Sabha bypolls Voting temporarily hanging for now at 35 polling booths due to faulty Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), says Abhimanyu Kale, District Magistrate (ANI) A delegation of BJP reaches ECI with complaints of EVMs developing a snag They are seeking repelling in 67 polling booths, chiefly in Gangoh and Nakur assembly segments in Kairana UP: BJP hits back at the joint opposition over EVM issue Cabinet minister Srikant Sharma says that the opposition knows that it is going to mislay the bypoll