New Delhi: Amid a handful of incidents of scuffle and some complaints to the Election Commission, the second section of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 concluded on Friday with a provisional voter turnout of 64.2. The ballot panel described the voting as “peaceful”.
In the second section, over 15.88 crore voters, together with 8.08 crore males, 7.8 crore females and 5,929 third gender had been eligible to vote.
Voters of two polling stations in Assam’s Silchar constituency boycotted polling over improvement points. The voters of 110 Durganar Bagan decrease major college and Chittaranjan lane didn’t take part within the polling course of.
Cricke icons Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid and Javagal Srinath had been seen voting at completely different polling stations in Bengaluru, nonetheless, almost half of its voters didn’t flip as much as forged their vote. The approximate voter turnout in Bangalore Central was 52.81 per cent, Bangalore North – 54.42 per cent and Bangalore South – 53.15 per cent.
According to the voter turnout figures shared by the district data workplace, Gautam Buddh Nagar constituency recorded a ballot proportion of 53.30 down from 60.47 per cent in 2019 elections
In Bihar, the polling time was prolonged until 6 pm at many polling stations in Banka, Madhepura, Khagaria and Munger constituencies to facilitate the voters in sizzling climate circumstances. Special preparations had been made to fight the warmth, together with provision of ‘shamiyana’, ingesting water, medical kits and followers for the comfort of the voters
In section two, the EC stated, voters from 46 villages in Bastar and Kanker constituencies in Chhattisgarh forged their vote in a polling sales space arrange in their very own village for the primary time in a Lok Sabha election.
Rajasthan recorded a tentatively 61.60 per cent voter turnout as 25 Lok Sabha seats went for polls within the second section of basic elections. A 108-year-old girl, Bhuri Bai, forged her vote on the Gunjara polling sales space within the Kota-Bundi constituency. She was dropped at the polling sales space in a wheelchair by her members of the family.
Lok Sabha Polls Phase II: 2024 VS 2019
In the second section of the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 held in 95 constituencies throughout 13 states, the turnout was 67.6 per cent whereas the second leg of the 2024 basic elections witnessed a decline in voter turnout almost by 3% and stood at 64.2.
In the primary section, the turnout was 65.5 per cent in comparison with 69.43 per cent in section one of many 2019 parliamentary polls. Some of the constituencies had been completely different then and the overall variety of seats which went to ballot was 91.
The warmth wave is believed to have contributed in the direction of a number of voters not turning up at polling stations in each the phases.
