Lok Sabha polls: This Assam constituency saw highest voter turnout in first 5 phases; lowest was in ...

Six out of the 7 phases of the Lok Sabha polls have been completed

As voting was under way in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission on Saturday released the absolute number of voters per constituency for the first five completed phases.

It said that details of the turnout percentage and total number of electors in every constituency where voting has taken place was already in public domain. The EC list now also includes the total number of votes cast in each seat.

According to the exhaustive data, the highest turnout was recorded in Assam's Dhubri at 92%. The seat went to polls in the third phase on May 7.

The total electorate in the constituency is about 2.6 million, of which 2.45 million cast their ballot. Interestingly, in terms of absolute voters too, Dhubri is the only constituency which saw over 2 million people casting their vote.

In 2019 too, the constituency recorded a turnout of 90.6%.

It is followed by four constituencies in Andhra Pradesh - Ongole (87%), Chittor (85.7%), Narsaraopet (85.65%) and Bapatla (85.48%).

The data further shows that Srinagar in J&K - which voted in phase 4 - has recorded the poorest turnout so far at 38.4%. Out of the 1.7 million people, about 6.7 lakh turned up to vote. Interestingly, this was still a massive improvement from just 14.43% polling in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and is the highest since 1996.

Other constituencies that saw a poor turnout are Bihar's Nawada (43.1%), Telangana's Hyderabad (48.4%), Uttarakhand's Almora (48.7%) and Telangana's Secunderabad (49%).

This was way below the national average of 67% in the first five phases.

The EC data further shows that over 50 crore people have already exercised their franchise in the five completed phases, with data awaited from the two remaining rounds.