Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Coimbatore records highest voter turnout in last 20 years at 71.7%

K Annamalai poses for media after casting his vote on April 19

Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore constituency, which went to polls during the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on April 19, registered its highest voter turnout since the past two decades.

According to Election Commission data available at 7 pm, the Lok Sabha constituency saw polling turnout at 71.7 percent, as against 63.84 percent in 2019. In 2009, Coimbatore had reached a similar figure at 70.81 percent, with the least in the past 20 years being recorded in 2004 at 55.51 percent. 10 years ago, in 2014, the figure stood at 68.40 percent.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded the president of its Tamil Nadu unit, former IPS officer K Annamalai, while AIADMK’s candidate is its IT wing secretary Singai Govindarasu Ramachandran and DMK is represented by Ganapathy P Rajkumar.

As per ECI data till 7 pm, maximum voter turnout was recorded in the Kallkurichi constituency of Tamil Nadu was at 75.67 percent and the least at Chennai Central at 67.35 percent.

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Tamil Nadu was among 20 other states and union territories that went to polls today, marking the beginning of the high-octane general elections as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to come back for a third time with an even bigger mandate.

The state recorded 72.09 percent voter turnout in the Lok Sabha polls, according to Chief Election Officer Satyabrata Sahoo.