The penultimate phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections recorded 63.37% voter turnout with 7.05 crore out of 11.13 crore eligible voters exercising their franchise, the Election Commission of India on Tuesday said. As many as 58 seats in eight states went to polls in the sixth phase on May 25.
Of the 87.54 crore electors in the first six phases of the Lok Sabha polls, as many as 57.77 crore voters turned up at the polling stations to cast their votes.
India has the largest electorate in the world at 96.88 crore. The citizens, who are enrolled in the electoral rolls, are described as electors while those who actually cast their votes are called voters.
In the 2019 general elections, the turnout in the sixth phase (59 seats in seven states that went to polls) was 64.4%.
According to the Election Commission (EC), the voter turnout in the fifth phase of the ongoing polls held on May 20 was recorded at 62.2%. The turnout in the fourth phase stood at 69.16 per cent, 3.65 percentage points higher than the corresponding phase in the 2019 general elections.
The voter turnout figure for the third phase of polling was 65.68%. In the third phase of the 2019 elections, the turnout was 68.4%.
In the second phase of the 2024 elections, the turnout was recorded at 66.71% as against the 69.64% in the second phase of the 2019 polls. First phase saw a 66.14% turnout. In the 2019 polls, the turnout in the first phase was 69.43%.
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