Independent candidate from Rampur Lok Sabha seat, Mehmood Pracha has urged the SC to pass direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to immediately publish voter turnout data after the election.
The Commission will also, after the scrutiny and depending on the number and schedule of repolls, publish the updated voter turnout along with a gender-wise breakdown by May 24.
After Maharashtra reported a sluggish voter turnout in the fifth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday claimed that voters in the state were deliberately harassed at polling booths, adding that the Bharatiya Janata Party is using the El
The Baramulla parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a voter turnout of 55.79 per cent in the districts of Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora and Budgam as of the latest data issued by the Election Commission of India on Monday.
Jammu and Kashmir chief electoral officer PK Pole on Monday commended the high voter turnout, 54.49 pc, in the union territory in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Voting for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections concluded on Monday across all 49 parliamentary constituencies spanning eight States and Union Territories with a voter turnout of 57.51 per cent.
A 47-year-old dwarf woman named Vinita Seth climbed a chair to cast her vote at a polling booth at Patnagarh in Balangir Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha on Monday.
The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections for 49 parliamentary constituencies saw a cumulative voter turnout of 56.68 per cent till 5 pm, as per the data shared by the Election Commission.
The fifth round of the Lok Sabha elections for 49 parliamentary constituencies saw a cumulative voter turnout of 47.53 per cent till 3 pm, as per the data shared by the Election Commission.
As voting continues in six Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai, the financial capital is witnessing a lower voter turnout with 27.28 per cent till 1:30 PM despite a good number of celebrity voters turning to polling booths and appealing citizens to exercise their franchise.
The fifth round of the Lok Sabha elections for 49 parliamentary constituencies saw a voter turn out of 36.73 percent till 1 pm, as per the data shared by the Election Commission.