India: Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat records highest voter turnout in 35 years
Lok Sabha polls
The sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections witnessed the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary Constituency (PC) scripting history as it recorded a voter turnout of 51.35 per cent, which was the highest in around last 35 years, i.e. since 1989.
This comprised of Anantnag, Poonch, Kulgam, and the districts of Rajouri and Shopian.
With this, all three parliamentary constituencies in the Kashmir valley, which include Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag-Rajouri, have recorded the highest voter turnouts in several decades, the Election Commission said in a press release.
Srinagar recorded a voter turnout of 38.49 per cent, Baramulla recorded 59.1 per cent, and Anantnag-Rajouri at 51.35 per cent.
The Commission led by CEC Rajiv Kumar and ECs Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu said, "People of Jammu and Kashmir, in the Anantnag Rajouri PC polling too, have reposed faith in democracy and proved naysayers wrong."
Anantnag-Rajouri PC makes history, as it records its highest turnout in last 35 years, at 51.35 % in General Elections 2024
With this, all three PCs in Kashmir valley have now recorded highest voter turnouts now
Details : https://t.co/ZIDdJbjJkS pic.twitter.com/BVHorco3Lm — Spokesperson ECI (@SpokespersonECI) May 25, 2024
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J-K registers voter turnout of 58%, says Chief Electoral Officer
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer PK Pole said that the Union Territory recorded an overall voter turnout of 58 per cent.
"Today voting was held for the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary Lok Sabha seat. A voter turnout of approximately 53 per cent was recorded. The highest voter turnout was recorded in the Surankote assembly segment while the lowest was recorded in the Kulgam Assembly segment," Pole told reporters.
"As far as the poll percentage is concerned in Union Territory... in 1989 the poll percentage was 29.93 per cent, in 1996, the poll percentage was 47.99 per cent, in 1998, it was 43.35 per cent, in 1999, it was 30.89 per cent, in 2004 it was 34.07 per cent, in 2009, it was 39. 04 per cent, in 2014 it was 49.58 per cent, and in 2019 it was 44. 07 per cent and it was 58 per cent in 2024," he added.
(With inputs from agencies)