Lok Sabha election 2024: Voter turnout sees a 2.9% point dip over 2019 during Phase 3 polling
Congress contesting 328 Lok Sabha seats, fewest ever. Details here In the second phase, the final turnout was 66.71%--a drop of about 3 percentage points from 2019.
The highest voter turnout in the third phase was recorded in Assam at 81.61%, and the lowest was in Uttar Pradesh at 57.34%. The voter turnout in seats in other states that voted on Tuesday in the third phase is Bihar -58.18 %, Chhattisgarh -71.06 %, Goa -75.20 %, Gujarat-58.98 %, Karnataka-70.41 %, Madhya Pradesh - 66.05 %, Maharashtra - 61.44 % and West Bengal -75.79 %, as per the latest ECI data.
Lok Sabha Election Phase 3: Voter turnout recorded at 63.23%, UP lowest A total of 1331 candidates, including around 120 women, were in the electoral fray in this phase. A total of 17.24 crore voters were eligible to cast their franchise in the third-phase at 1.85 lakh polling stations.
With the conclusion of Phase 3, polling is over in 20 States/UTs and 283 constituencies for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Gautam Adani flaunts indelible on finger after voting Prominent leaders who contested in the Phase 3 poll battle 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.Milestone Alert!
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