Poll panel lauded as India records highest voter turnout

Under the initiative, actors Soha Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Saif Ali Khan and Jimmy Shergill urged people ahead of the assembly election last year to vote, while others like Jacky Bhagnani, Neha Sharma and comedian Kapil Sharma encouraged the voters this time.

"Under SVEEP, the Election Commission also organised enrolment programmes for transgenders in various states and helped in filling up the gender gap — which was hardly a focus in the previous elections," Dhirendra Ojha, a director at the Election Commission, said.

Ojha said that unlike previous occasions, there was an unprecedented rise in the voting percentage of the youth.

He added that the high voting percentage in this election has clearly given an idea that voting percentage will "rise in the future".