Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 3: Voter turnout recorded at 61.76%, Maharashtra marks lowest
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting Live Updates Maharashtra marked the lowest voter turnout at 55.21 per cent. Notably, the same 93 seats had polled 67.33% in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The numbers, updated till 8pm on May 7, confirms speculations that voter turnout has reduced from the last Lok Sabha Elections held in 2019. In this phase, more than 1300 candidates, including around 120 women, are in the fray.
A total of 17.24 crore voters are eligible to cast their franchise in this phase at 1.85 lakh polling stations. Voting percentages for other States participating in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls as per latest data are- Assam-- 75.30 per cent Bihar --56.55 per cent Chhattisgarh--67.16 per cent Goa -- 74.47 per cent Gujarat--56.86 per cent Karnataka--68.67 per cent Madhya Pradesh--63.32 per cent Maharashtra-- 54.98 per cent Uttar Pradesh--57.34 per cent West Bengal--73.93 per cent Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu- 65.23 per cent Prominent leaders contesting Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 3 included Union Home Minister Amit Shah, former Madhya Pradesh chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Digvijaya Singh, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Samajwadi Party leader Dimple Yadav, and NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule, among others.
In the 2019 general election, the BJP won 72 of the 93 seats that go to the polls today. Voting will not take place for Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday as the Election Commission of India (ECI) has postponed the polling to the sixth phase to be held on May 25.
Originally, voting was scheduled to be held on 94 Lok Sabha seats in the third phase. The Lok Sabha elections are being held across seven
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