Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 60% updated voter turnout in phase 5 polling, slightly less than 2019

The 49 constituencies that voted across six states and two Union Territories in phase 5 of have registered approximate voter turnout of 60.48 per cent, the said on Tuesday.

This turnout is slightly less than 61.82 per cent polling registered by these 49 seats in . With the updated final turnout likely to rise, the gap will be narrowed further.

Polling was held in Uttar Pradesh (14), Maharashtra (13), West Bengal (7), Bihar (5), Odisha (5), Jharkhand (3), and one seat each in the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh in the fifth phase on Monday.

recorded 76 per cent polling, highest among states and UTs that voted on Monday. The poll panel said that Bihar registered 55 per cent voting, Jharkhand- 63 per cent, Ladakh-70 per cent, Maharashtra 54 per cent, Odisha 69 percent, Uttar Pradesh 58 per cent, among the states that polled on Monday.

Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir recorded voter turnout of 59 per cent since 1984 when the seat registered 61 per cent turnout.

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The voter turnout app showed provisional turnout of 58.17 per cent for the seat in north as on Tuesday morning. In 2019, Baramulla had recorded 34.6 per cent polling. 

The first four phases of the saw an overall turnout of 66.95 per cent, the poll panel said earlier. The first three phases saw a dip, but the turnout in fourth phase – 69.16 per cent – was slightly higher than that registered in 2019.

In the first phase held on April 19, the final turnout of 66.14 per cent was lesser than 69.29 per cent turnout in 2019. Similarly in the second phase held on April 26, the 66.71 per cent turnout was lesser than 69.43 per cent turnout in 2019. In the held on May 7, the 65.68 per cent polling was lesser