NEW DELHI, May 28:
The penultimate phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections recorded 63.37 per cent voter turnout with 7.05 crore out of 11.13 crore eligible voters exercising their franchise, the Election Commission of India said today.
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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 per cent.
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 per cent.
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 per cent. In the third phase of the 2019 elections, the turnout was 68.4 per cent.
In the second phase of the 2024 elections, the turnout was recorded at 66.71 per cent as against the 69.64 per cent in the second phase of the 2019 polls.
In the first phase of the ongoing general elections, a 66.14 per cent turnout was recorded. In the 2019 polls, the turnout in the first phase was 69.43 per cent.
Meanwhile, Female voters outnumbered male voters for the second consecutive time in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections by 3 per cent, according to data released by the Election Commission today.
In the fifth phase too, more women had turned up at Polling Stations as compared to men.
According to the EC, 61.95 per cent of the eligible male voters and 64.95 per cent of the eligible female voters cast ballot in the sixth phase.
In Bihar, 62.95 per cent women voted as against 51.95 per cent men. In Jharkhand, 65.94 per cent women voted and 64.87 per cent men.
Uttar Pradesh saw 57.12 per cent women and 51.31 per cent men cast ballot.
In West Bengal, women’s turnout stood at 83.83 per cent and men’s at 81.62 per cent.
In Odisha, women’s turnout (74.86 per cent) was only marginally higher than men’s (74.07 per cent).
In the fifth phase, 63 per cent women voters turned up at polling booths as against 61.48 per cent men.
Women’s participation was higher than men in Bihar, Jharkhand, Ladakh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)
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