Lok Sabha Election 2024: 60.48% polling estimated in Phase 5, EC to release final figures on Friday

The trend of increased voting in Jammu and Kashmir continued on Monday, with Baramulla recording a nearly 24 percentage point increase from 34.3 per cent in 2019 to 58.17 per cent, as of Tuesday noon.
While the turnout has increased across Jammu and Kashmir so far, the boundaries of the constituencies have changed due to delimitation in 2022, making seat-wise comparison difficult.

Of the eight states and UTs in phase five, only Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh had increased turnout compared to 2019, according to Tuesday’s estimates. Turnout in West Bengal’s seven seats was the highest among the states and UTs, at 76.05 per cent, but they also saw a decrease of nearly four percentage points compared to 2019.

In Uttar Pradesh’s 14 seats that went to poll in phase five, the estimated turnout was 57.79 per cent, just under one percentage point of the 2019 turnout of 58.38 per cent. Amethi, where BJP MP Smriti Irani contested against Congress candidate K L Sharma, the turnout was 54.15 per cent; Raebareli, where Congress leader Rahul Gandhi contested, the turnout was 57.85 per cent.

The polling for all 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra was completed during the fifth phase, which included 13 of the seats. Maharashtra had the lowest voter turnout among the eight states and UTs at 54.33 per cent, followed by Bihar with 54.85 per cent.

About 80 per cent of the Lok Sabha constituencies have voted so far, with two phases left. As many as 115 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will go to poll in the final two phases — 58 in the sixth phase on May 25 and 57 in the seventh on June 1. The nationwide counting will be held on June 4.