NEW DELHI: As polls in Jammu and Kashmir wound up with no main regulation and order incidents, larger participation by candidates and higher turnouts as in comparison with 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Election Commission claimed to have delivered on its promise of making certain democratic resurgence within the Union Territory.
Whereas the primary part of polling on Sept 18 recorded a better turnout (61.3%) than in each the LS ballot and 2014 meeting elections, polling proportion in Part 2 (on Sept 25) was larger than LS ballot however decrease than the final meeting ballot.At round 67%, the turnout in Part 3 has exceeded the 2024 LS ballot determine (66.8%) however will nonetheless be in need of that recorded in 2014 meeting elections.
EC, in a press release on Tuesday, shared that no regulation and order incidents had been recorded in these polls as towards 170 in 2014 meeting ballot, together with 87 on polling days. It added that no arbitrary, poll-eve detentions of political functionaries or last-minute change in polling stations (PS), as towards 98 PS shifted in 2014, was resorted to. Moreover, curbs on cash and muscle energy led to report seizures of Rs 130 crore, together with Rs 110 crore in medicine alone, because the announcement of polls. These are the best poll-time seizures ever in J&Ok.
As EC described the “seamless, easy and peaceable” J&Ok polls as “a brand new chapter”, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar informed TOI: “As introduced by me in J&Ok on Aug 16, EC has delivered these elections with no violence or repolls, and the world has witnessed the defeat of nefarious intentions”.
With no ballot boycott name given and separatists themselves getting into the fray, many areas as soon as referred to as terror hotbeds noticed brisk polling. Turnout surged by nearly 13 proportion factors in Pulwama meeting constituency (AC) as in comparison with 2014 polls, 9.5 proportion factors in Zainapora AC of Shopian and by 9.2 proportion factors in Eidgah AC of Srinagar.
There was a 7% rise within the variety of candidates within the fray from 815 to 873 now, with whole ladies candidates as much as 43 from 28, independents up by 26% and collaborating registered unrecognised political events up by 71% because the 2014 meeting polls.
EC on Tuesday stated its intensive efforts expanded the J&Ok voters by 23% and feminine electors by round 28%. Younger voters (18-19 years) had been up at 4.4 lakh from 1.5 lakh in 2014. New, distinctive polling stations had been arrange in areas close to the Line of Management and worldwide border, resembling Poonch, Rajouri, Samba, Jammu, Baramulla, Bandipora, Kathua and Kupwara. The high-altitude Phelgowari polling station in Kishtwar noticed round 98% turnout. Gorrow in Inderwal constituency recorded 100% turnout and a complete 21,395 Kashmiri migrants voted at particular polling stations in Jammu, Udhampur and Delhi.
A complete of three,381 voters above 85 years of age and a couple of,734 individuals with disabilities used the house voting facility. For the primary time ever, 9 seats reserved for STs voted.
