After five rounds of polling, an analysis of turnout shows that of the 409 seats where data can be compared with 2019, nearly two-thirds, or 258, have witnessed a lower percentage turnout this year and 88 (more than one in five) have seen even the absolute number of votes drop from five years ago.Seats with…
NEW DELHI: The first phase of polling for the 2024 general election – covering the largest chunk of 102 Lok Sabha seats across 21 states and UTs – witnessed an encouraging turnout of 63.5% (as of 11pm), while remaining largely smooth and peaceful even in vulnerable areas like the Naxal-hit Bastar region and West Bengal….
RAIPUR: Over 64% of Bastar‘s 14 lakh electorate defied the Maoist threat and turned up to vote by 5pm in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Friday. This figure is expected to rise.This is being held in the backdrop of the most aggressive anti-Maoist operations in nearly two decades of insurgency. As…
GUWAHATI: Not one of over four lakh voters in eastern Nagaland turned up in elections to the state’s lone Lok Sabha seat on Friday following a boycott and shutdown call by Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) over the Centre’s “failure” to fulfil its long-standing demand to create a separate zone with greater autonomy.The 20 MLAs…
