Kolhapur led with 76.63 percent voter turnout, followed by Gadchiroli at 75.26 percent; the lowest was recorded in Mumbai’s island city at 52.07 percent and 55.95 percent in the metropolis' suburban district.
Chief Electoral Officer PK Pole announced that this marks the highest voter turnout in the last seven Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the region.
The women voter turnout was 64.72 percent while that of men was 63.11 percent. The turnout of persons of the third gender was 22.33 percent, the data showed.
A voter turnout of about 58.34% as of 5 pm was recorded for 57 seats that went to vote in the seventh & final phase of the general elections 2024. West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout while Bihar saw the least at 49%. Here are the details of key constituencies and their voter turnout.
Saturday's voting will mark the end of the marathon polling process that began on April 19.
Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are being held simultaneously in the state.
Till 3 pm, the approximate polling percentage was 49.68, according to the EC's voter-turnout app.
The final phase of the polls will be held on June 1 where 57 seats in eight states will go for vote.
Nearly 40 percent of migrant Kashmiri Pandits participated in the voting process in the Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituency.
When compared to 2019, six constituencies saw lower voter turnout in absolute numbers in the five phases of 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
258 constituencies saw lower voter percentage and 88 seats saw the absolute number of voters drop as compared to 2019 lok sabha elections.
The voter turnout was markedly low in urban areas of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
The report predicts, based on the trends so far, an overall voter turnout of around 67.5 percent for this Lok Sabha elections under a base case scenario, almost equivalent to 67.7 percent in 2019. "This is based on around 96 crore registered electors, of which 65.3 crore are expected to vote cumulatively in this election," it added.
Unless one witnesses both the voter turnout witnessing a steep decline and significant anti-incumbency, Bernstein does not see much impact on the overall election results
EC said 66.89 per cent of men, 64.4 per cent of women and 25.2 per cent of the registered transgender voters turned up at polling stations.
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It is difficult to read voters’ minds if the turnout is low. The thumb rule is if the voting percentage is low by up to 5% we perceive people do not want change and there is lack of inertia, says expert.
Voting was held peacefully across booths, said officials. The counting of votes will take place on January 8.
Activists say that the numbers may not tell the full story, and that the quality of the electoral rolls could also lead to the drop in polling percentages.
The state administration received complaints of malfunctioning of EVMs (electronic voting machines) and VVPATs (voter verifiable paper audit trails) from many places due to which voting at those booths was impacted.
Polling began at 7 am across 320 booths in the constituency.
Voting began at 8 am across 14,975 polling stations and will continue till 5 pm.
Polling for the first phase in 19 districts of Saurashtra, Kutch and south Gujarat was held on Thursday. The fate of 788 candidates was sealed in Electronic Voting Machines.
The state went for a single-phase election on Saturday.
From capital Shimla to the icy heights of Spiti, people across the state voted braving cold and in the higher reaches of mountains trudging through snow to elect a new state government.