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  67.11 per cent: Highest ever Lok Sabha voter turnout in 2019

  India | May 20, 2019 20:49 IST

  In an unprecedented development, 2019 recorded the highest ever voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election at 67.11 per cent. But it is also pertinent to mention that the Election Commission figures are provisional and are subject to change.

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  25.25% voting recorded in Bihar Lok Sabha polls till 12 pm

  India | May 19, 2019 13:24 IST

  According to the election officials, angry voters ransacked the polling booth in Nalanda and held the Block Development Officer hostage. No voting took place in the booth. 

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  Over 10 per cent voting in Punjab Lok Sabha polls till 10 am

  India | May 19, 2019 11:44 IST

  Voting began at 7 a.m. in the constituencies of Patiala, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib (SC), Faridkot (SC), Ferozpur, Bathinda, Sangrur and Gurdaspur. Polling will end at 6 p.m. 

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  Himachal Pradesh witnesses 14% voter turnout in first two hours of seventh phase polling

  India | May 19, 2019 13:01 IST

  Polling began at 7 am in Shimla (SC), Mandi, Hamirpur and Kangra.

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  10.48 per cent polling till 9 am in Jharkhand

  India | May 19, 2019 10:36 IST

  The electorate also includes 22,00,119 female and 21 third gender voters.

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  8.08% turnout recorded in 8 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar till 9 am

  India | May 19, 2019 13:02 IST

  Altogether 157 candidates including four Union Ministers are in the fray in the seventh and final phase of polling in Bihar.

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  LS polls: 63% voting in sixth phase; BJP candidate attacked in Bengal, poll official beaten up in UP

  May 12, 2019 22:07 IST

  Elections were held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eight constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, four in Jharkhand and seven seats in Delhi where votes were cast by a number of public figures, including President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

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  Delhi records 59.8% voter turnout

  May 12, 2019 20:21 IST

  Over 1.43 crore people in Delhi were eligible to vote in this election. Out of total 164 candidates, 18 are women while there are 43 Independent candidates.

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  In today's happy news, 100% voter turnout in Gujarat's Gir Forest. But there's a twist

  April 23, 2019 18:15 IST

  The Election Commission of India has setup a polling booth for this singular voter in the middle of a dense, isolated jungle of Gujarat’s Junagadh district.

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  Two senior citizens die in Kerala while waiting to vote

  April 23, 2019 15:08 IST

  Vijayi (65) was waiting for her turn to vote at the Chokli Rama vilasam L P School booth near Panur, which comes under Vatakara constituency when she collapsed, police said.

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  Third phase polling: 16.94 per cent voter turn out in West Bengal in first two hours

  April 23, 2019 12:27 IST

  Barring a few isolated incidents of violence, polling has largely been peaceful in Balurghat, Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur and Murshidabad Lok Sabha seats, he said.

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  Phase 2 Lok Sabha Election: Manipur clocks 80% voter turnout, Srinagar registers only 14.8

  April 18, 2019 23:47 IST

  Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha said in Delhi that the overall turnout in the second phase was 66 per cent.

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  Polling in Phase 2 of Lok Sabha Election 2019 concludes: Srinagar records 13.43% voter turnout

  April 18, 2019 19:36 IST

  Puducherry saw a high voter turnout of 78 per cent while in Manipur, the polling percentage was nearly 75, sources in the election office said.

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  Lok Sabha polls phase two: 61.12 % voter turnout till 5 pm, West Bengal tops list with 75%

  April 18, 2019 19:01 IST

  Jammu and Kashmir recorded the lowest voter turnout of 42%. Politically significant Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra recorded 58% and 55% voter turnout in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections respectively.

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  Phase I Lok Sabha polls: Bihar records lowest voter turnout with 50%, West Bengal tops with 81%

  April 12, 2019 10:20 IST

  This time however, the poll panel did not share the overall polling percentage at its briefing, saying the data was being collated and would be available later.

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  Amid EVM malfunction allegations, Jammu and Kashmir records over 57% voter turnout

  April 12, 2019 10:14 IST

  Addressing media persons at a press conference here, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Jammu and Kashmir, Shailendra Kumar said Jammu Parliamentary Constituency, spread across four districts of Jammu, Samba, Rajouri and Poonch with 20 assembly segments, recorded voter turnout of 72.16 per cent.

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  Polling in first phase of Lok Sabha Election concludes: 14 crore voters seal fate of 1279 candidates

  April 11, 2019 23:05 IST

  Election officials said voter turnout was high at most places, while poll-related violence saw death of two persons in Andhra Pradesh and complaints poured in from various states about glitches in electronic voting machines and of names missing from the voter lists.

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  J-K Panchayat Elections: Jammu records 79.5% voter turnout, Kashmir 64.5% in first phase polling

  Elections | November 17, 2018 21:04 IST

  A total of 2.35 lakh voters casted their votes in Jammu; while in Kashmir, the total number of electorate was 1,35,774.

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  J&K local body elections: Valley gives cold shoulder to civic polls; Jammu witnesses brisk voting

  Elections | October 08, 2018 23:43 IST

  There was poor turnout in the Kashmir Valley in the first phase of the civic polls that took place amid boycott calls by the two key parties in the state -- the National Conference and the People's Democratic Party.

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  Breaking records, Karnataka witnesses 72.13 voter turnout, highest since 1952 state polls

  May 13, 2018 21:40 IST

  A single-phase polling was held in 222 constituencies out of the 224 elected seats in the Assembly, including 36 reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and 15 for the Scheduled Tribes (ST).