The voter turnout within the 2024 normal elections dipped by just a little greater than 1.3 share factors up to now decade, from 67.3% in 2014 to 65.978% this 12 months, even because the variety of votes forged elevated by 5.3%, from 614 million in 2019 to 646.4 million in 2024, the Election Fee of India (ECI) stated on Thursday.
In accordance with 42 statistical stories launched by the ECI, the variety of eligible voters rose by 7.43% from 911.9 million in 2019 to 979.8 million in 2024. These stories are launched a number of months after each Lok Sabha election.
The report acknowledged that 646,420,869 votes have been forged by way of digital voting machines (EVMs) in 2024, of which 4,281,594 (0.67%) have been forged by means of postal ballots. Of the general votes forged (EVMs and postal ballots), 638,990,692 have been deemed legitimate, whereas 1,058,338 have been rejected or not counted.
To make certain, no votes have been forged in a single parliamentary constituency of Surat (Gujarat) because the candidate received uncontested. Nevertheless, of the 542 constituencies that voted, 11 noticed a voter turnout of lower than 50%, with Srinagar seeing the bottom turnout at 38.7% vis-a-vis 14.4% in 2014. Assam’s Dhubri, alternatively, noticed the best turnout at 92.3%.
The six nationwide events that participated within the normal elections — Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), Congress, Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP), Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BJP), CPI(M), NPEP — accounted for 63.35% of all of the legitimate votes forged.
The BJP secured 235,974,144 votes, accounting for 36.93% of the votes forged, adopted by the Congress at 136,758,952, or 21.4%. The BJP had the best share in Tripura (71.77%), whereas Congress had the best in Puducherry at 53.37%.
In Uttar Pradesh, though the Samajwadi Social gathering received 37 seats, it obtained 33.84% of the legitimate votes forged, in comparison with the BJP which received 33 seats regardless of getting 41.67%.
Of the 8,359 candidates who contested the elections, 7,190 (or 86%) forfeited their deposits, 54.3% (3,905) of which have been by unbiased candidates. A complete of three,921 unbiased candidates contested and accounted for two.79% of the whole legitimate votes. Solely seven have been elected.
As many as 230 candidates secured 40-50% of votes forged of their constituencies. Solely seven profitable candidates secured greater than 70% of votes from these forged of their constituencies, whereas solely 5 secured lower than 30%.
Of the 642,139,275 votes forged by means of EVMs in 2024, 51.29% votes (329,361,948) have been forged by males, 48.7% (312,764,269) by ladies, and 0.002% (13,058) by the third gender. At 13,058, voters from the third gender noticed a 27.09% voter turnout, up from 14.64% in 2019. Puducherry had the best share of girls voters (53.03%), adopted by Kerala (51.56%).
The variety of ladies candidates rose from 726 in 2019 to 800 in 2024, with the best variety of ladies candidates coming from Maharashtra (111), Uttar Pradesh (80) and Tamil Nadu (77). Nevertheless, there have been no ladies candidates in 152 constituencies.
The variety of registered PwD electors rose by 46.4% from 6,167,482 in 2019 to 9,028,696 in 2024. The variety of registered abroad electors rose by 19.6% from 99,844 in 2019 to 119,374 this 12 months.
In the meantime, the variety of polling stations elevated by 1.43%, from 1,037,848 in 2019 to 1,052,664, however solely 40 polling stations noticed repolls this 12 months in comparison with 540 in 2019. At eleven, the utmost variety of repolls have been held within the constituency of Interior Manipur, adopted by Arunachal West (8) and Outer Manipur (6). The state of Manipur noticed the best variety of repolls.
On common, there have been 930 electors per polling station, whereas solely three parliamentary constituencies had greater than 3,000 polling stations.
