Elections in India: behaviour and trends (2024)

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Voter tumout

Bharti.Jain, June 2, 2024: The Times of India

Voter turnout in Lok Sabha elections, 2019-24
From: Bharti.Jain, June 2, 2024: The Times of India

All done: 62% turnout in Ph-7 against 65.3% in 2019

Bharti.Jain@timesgroup.com


New Delhi :  The all-India polling per centage in the 2024 Lok Sabha poll can be known only after Form 17C data is finalised for Phase 7. However, the turnout for the first six phases — covering 485 seats excluding Surat that did not see a contest — works out to 66%. The all-India turnout in 2019 — for all 543 seats and including postal votes — was 67.4%.


Among states that voted on Saturday, West Bengal maintained its high-turnout streak with 73.4%polling. Jharkhand and Odisha also fared well on the polling meter, both logging turnout of 70.7%. Himachal witnessed a turnout of 69.8%, followed by Chandigarh with 67.9%. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar continued to report moderate turnouts at 55.6% and 51.6% respectively. Varanasi, from where PM Narendra Modi is seeking re-election, polled 56.3% votes. Ghazipur witnessed a turnout of 55.2% and Gorakhpur 54.7%. Salempur saw the least polling in the state at 51.3%.
Punjab — which is witnessing a three-cornered fight among Congress, AAP and BJP — saw a moderate 59.5% turnout, way less than the 65.9% polling it had seen in 2019. Constituencies like Amritsar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur, in particular, witnessed low voter interest.


The total electorate in the current poll was 97.6 crore, of which 57.8 crore had voted until Phase 6. Even if 62% of the electorate in 57 remaining seats have voted in Phase 7, the absolute number of votes polled would have crossed 64 crore, up from 61.4 crore who voted in 2019.


In terms of gender-wise voting, turnout among women exceeded the male polling percentage in two of the last six phases, as it did in 173 of the 486 parliamentary constituencies where polling was completed by Phase 6.


See also

Chief Election Commissioners Of India

Delhi: Parliamentary elections

Election Commission of India

Election expenditure: India

Election laws, rules. procedures: India

Elections in India: behaviour and trends (historical)

Elections in India: behaviour and trends (2014)

Elections in India: behaviour and trends (2019)

Elections in India: behaviour and trends (2024)

India: A political history, 1947 onwards

Karnataka: caste, mutts and elections

Pakistan: Elections, 1937 onwards

...and also

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