NEW DELHI: The general turnout within the J&Okay Meeting election, spanning all three phases, was 63.8%, surpassing the 58.6% voter turnout recorded within the Union Territory through the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Nonetheless, it was decrease than the roughly 65.4% polling recorded within the 2014 meeting polls, excluding the 4 meeting seats that have been then a part of Ladakh, which is now a separate Union territory.
The ultimate turnout for Section 3, primarily based on EVM votes, was almost 69.7%, displaying solely a slight rise over the determine put out by the Election Commission at 11.45 pm on Tuesday.Sources stated this is because of a aware effort by the EC to have district election officers replace the voting turnout figures in its app, by the tip of the polling day. With no repolls necessitated after scrutiny on Wednesday, the ultimate polling proportion for section 3 exhibits solely a marginal rise.
Among the many three phases, section 3 recorded the best turnout, as in comparison with 61.4% in section 1 and 57.3% in section 2.
A have a look at districtwise turnouts reveals that every one 10 districts within the Jammu area witnessed larger polling than the ten districts of Kashmir division. The best polling proportion, 80.2%, was recorded in Kishtwar district of Jammu division, whereas Srinagar in Kashmir clocked the bottom turnout of 30.1%. The polling in Srinagar, nevertheless, was larger than that within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and 2014 meeting elections.
Within the Jammu area, after Kishtwar, Samba recorded the best polling at 76.5%, adopted by Udhampur and Reasi at 76.1% and 74.7% respectively. The bottom-turnout district on this area was Ramban, the place 70.6% of the voters turned out to vote.
The best polling district in Kashmir division, Bandipore, recorded 67.6% turnout, which by the way was decrease than what the least-turnout district in Jammu recorded. Kupwara polled 66.8% votes, adopted by Budgam and Kulgam at 63.3% and 63.1% respectively. The phobia-prone districts of Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama and Srinagar recorded turnouts that have been all lower than 60%, with Srinagar stopping at barely 30.1%.
Of the almost 58,700 registered Kashmir migrant voters – for whom particular polling stations have been arrange in Delhi, Udhampur and Jammu – solely 21,395, or 36.4%, solid their vote in these meeting elections.
