2024-05-24 15:49:18
New Delhi: Thus far, 5 phases of voting have been held within the Lok Sabha elections. Information launched by the Election Fee reveals that in most phases, much less voting has taken place as in comparison with 2019. Nonetheless, the distinction has been completely different from part to part and in several states, there was extra and fewer voting in some locations in comparison with 5 years in the past. This comparability has been achieved with the votes casted with EVMs final time as a result of the information of postal votes for 2024 just isn’t but out there. Evaluation of the information after 5 rounds of voting reveals that of the 409 seats whose knowledge could be in contrast with 2019, about two-thirds or 258 seats have seen a decrease share of voting this 12 months and 88 (a couple of in 5) seats have additionally seen a decline within the complete variety of votes in comparison with 5 years in the past.
Seats with low turnout or total low vote depend usually are not evenly unfold throughout some states however clustered collectively. For example, all 20 seats in Kerala noticed a drop in turnout and 12 of them recorded fewer votes within the EVMs than in 2019. Uttarakhand too noticed decrease turnout in all 5 seats and three of the six seats noticed fewer folks vote this time.
Practically half of the seats in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu noticed a drop within the complete variety of voters and almost 90% of the seats in these states witnessed decrease voter turnout. UP and Madhya Pradesh additionally noticed decrease voter turnout in three-fourths of the seats, however solely one-third of the seats in these Hindi heartland states recorded fewer votes than in 2019.
In Gujarat and West Bengal, all however one seat noticed decrease voter turnout than in 2019, however not a single seat in Bengal noticed a drop in voter turnout, with the rise in voter turnout compensating for the drop in turnout. Practically 1 / 4 of the seats in Gujarat noticed fewer votes forged. Equally, in Bihar, 21 of the 24 seats noticed decrease voter turnout than in 2019, however just one seat noticed a drop within the complete variety of votes.
Voting was down in 20 of the 48 seats in Maharashtra, however solely six seats noticed fewer folks prove to vote on polling day. Apparently, of the six seats throughout the nation that had fewer voters than in 2019, 5 have been in Maharashtra and these included Pune and Mumbai South. Nonetheless, solely three of the 5 seats noticed fewer votes forged this time.
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Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Odisha, Telangana and West Bengal had no seats with fewer votes this time than in 2019, although all of them had some seats the place turnout was decrease. Chhattisgarh was the one main state the place each turnout per seat and complete variety of votes have been increased.
Although the Election Fee has not launched knowledge on the entire variety of votes forged in every seat, the truth that voter turnout is understood and the polling share can also be recognized as much as two decimal locations means it’s doable to work out an estimated determine for the votes forged. This evaluation is predicated on that estimate. Of the 428 seats the place polling befell, solely 409 could be in contrast with 2019 as a result of 14 seats in Assam and 5 Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir have been freshly demarcated.