An estimated 56 per cent turnout was today recorded at Jawaharlal Nehru University student union elections, which is a five per cent drop from last year.
JNU's Chief Election Commissioner Gyan Prakash said the turn out was of 56 per cent, a decline from last year's figure of 61 per cent.
The polls were to begin at 9 AM but started only after 9.30 AM, Gyan Prakash said.
In view of the delay, the election commission officers extended the closing time by half an hour till 6 PM.
Polling passed off peacefully as internal security guards kept a tight vigil following the university's tradition of non-involvement of police forces.
There are eight candidates fighting for the post of president, five for vice-president, six for general secretary and three for joint secretary in JNUSU.
Students Federation of India (SFI) and All India Students Association (AISA) are the major contenders but National Students Union of India (NSUI) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) have also fielded candidates.
Merit-cum-Means Scholarship (MCM) was the common agenda for all the contesting students unions.
