SRINAGAR: Less than three per cent voters exercised their franchise in Shopian and Pulwama districts of Anantnag constituency, while Ladakh recorded nearly 64 per cent turnout as polling in Jammu and Kashmir came to an end on Monday.
Chief Electoral Officer Shailendra Kumar said the overall voter turnout in the six Lok Sabha seats in the state was 44.51 per cent, which was five per cent down from the 49.52 per cent recorded in the 2014 election.
The overall voting percentage in Anantnag, which voted in three phases, stood at 8.76 per cent.
This is the second-lowest turnout for any Lok Sabha constituency in the state since the eruption of militancy, staying marginally above the 7.2 per cent registered in the bypoll to the Srinagar parliamentary seat in 2017.
“Shopian district recorded a turnout of 2.88 per cent, while Pulwama registered a turnout of 2.14 per cent. The average for the two districts was 2.81 per cent,” Kumar said.
Kumar said the election was largely peaceful, with two incidents of grenade attacks at polling stations in the militancy-infested south Kashmir districts, but no one was hurt in these attacks. (AGENCIES)
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