ECI releases ‘world’s largest electoral dataset’ for 2024 elections: 10 key takeaways | Newest Information India

In line with the Election Fee, these reports might be a invaluable useful resource for academicians, researchers, and election observers globally, enabling complete evaluation and insights into election insurance policies.

The dataset contains detailed info akin to Parliamentary and Meeting constituency-wise electors, polling station numbers, voter turnout by state or constituency, party-wise vote shares, gender-based voting patterns, girls’s participation, regional traits, constituency summaries, the efficiency of nationwide and state events, profitable candidate evaluation, and extra.

An ECI official instructed ANI, “This exhaustive information set empowers stakeholders to slice and cube information for a granular degree evaluation with comparability from information units of earlier elections already accessible on ECI web site. These experiences will facilitate time-series evaluation to trace long-term outlook and shifts in electoral and political panorama.”

The ECI’s proactive strategy to sharing this in depth dataset is anticipated to counter criticisms of non-disclosure by the ballot physique.

Highlights of the 42 experiences on 2024 Lok Sabha elections

1. The variety of registered electors rose to 97.97 crore in 2024, a 7.43% enhance from 91.19 crore in 2019. A complete of 64.64 crore votes have been polled, up from 61.4 crore in 2019. Of those, 64.21 crore have been EVM votes (32.93 crore male, 31.27 crore feminine, and 13,058 third gender) and 42.81 lakh have been postal ballots.
2. Dhubri in Assam recorded the best turnout at 92.3%, whereas Srinagar in J&Okay had the bottom at 38.7%, a major enchancment from 14.4% in 2019. Eleven parliamentary constituencies reported voter turnout beneath 50%. NOTA accounted for 63.71 lakh votes (0.99%), down from 1.06% in 2019. The turnout amongst transgender voters stood at 27.09%.
3. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections featured 10,52,664 polling stations, a rise from 10,37,848 in 2019. Repolling was performed at solely 40 polling stations, a mere 0.0038% of the whole, considerably down from 540 in 2019. Every polling station served a mean of 931 electors.
4. Uttar Pradesh recorded the best variety of polling stations at 1,62,069, whereas Lakshadweep had the fewest with 55. Eleven parliamentary constituencies had fewer than 1,000 polling stations, whereas three had greater than 3,000. Bihar noticed the most important enhance in polling stations with 4,739 extra stations in comparison with 2019, adopted by West Bengal with 1,731.
5. Within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 12,459 nominations have been filed, barely greater than the 11,692 in 2019. Of those, 8,360 certified as contesting candidates after withdrawals and rejections, in comparison with 8,054 contesting candidates in 2019.
6. The parliamentary constituency (PC) with the best variety of nominations was Malkajgiri in Telangana, with 114 nominations, whereas Dibrugarh in Assam recorded the bottom, with simply three nominations (excluding Surat).
7. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections highlighted important strides in girls’s participation. Of the 97.97 crore registered electors, 47.63 crore have been girls, up from 43.85 crore in 2019, comprising 48.62% of the whole electors in comparison with 48.09% in 2019. Puducherry led with the best proportion of feminine electors (53.03%), adopted by Kerala (51.56%). The feminine-to-male elector ratio reached a file excessive of 946 per 1,000 males, up from 926 in 2019.
8. Feminine voter turnout was 65.78%, surpassing male turnout (65.55%), marking the second occasion in Lok Sabha historical past the place girls outvoted males, as they did in 2019. Dhubri (Assam) had the best feminine voting turnout at 92.17%, adopted by Tamluk (West Bengal) at 87.57%. By way of illustration, 800 girls contested the elections, up from 726 in 2019. Maharashtra had the best variety of feminine candidates (111), adopted by Uttar Pradesh (80) and Tamil Nadu (77). Nonetheless, 152 constituencies had no feminine candidates.
9. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections witnessed a 23.5% enhance in registered third-gender electors, rising to 48,324 from 39,075 in 2019. Tamil Nadu registered the best variety of third-gender electors (8,467). Voter turnout amongst transgender people practically doubled, reaching 27.09% in comparison with 14.64% in 2019. Registered PwD electors additionally noticed a major rise, rising from 61.67 lakh in 2019 to 90.28 lakh in 2024. Abroad electors elevated to 1,19,374, comprising 1,06,411 males, 12,950 females, and 13 third-gender voters, up from 99,844 in 2019.
10. Among the many outcomes, six nationwide events participated, securing 63.35% of the whole legitimate votes. Unbiased candidates made up 3,921 of the contestants, with solely seven profitable seats; 3,905 forfeited their deposits, polling 2.79% of the legitimate votes. A complete of seven,190 candidates forfeited their deposits total, a rise from 6,923 in 2019. Surat (Gujarat) was the one uncontested parliamentary constituency. Of the unbiased candidates, 279 have been feminine.