EC released voting percentage after 4 days(EC )

Lok Sabha Elections: The Election Commission  (EC ) has released the voter turnout figures for the first and second phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The Commission said on Tuesday that there was 66.14 percent voting in the first phase and 66.71 percent voting in the second phase. The opposition has raised questions on the difference of about 6 percent between the figures released before the second phase of voting and today’s figures. Besides, the Election Commission has also been targeted for the delay of four days.

Questions on Election Commission figures

The Congress, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Trinamool Congress on Tuesday slammed the Election Commission over the long delay in announcing the final voting percentage figures for the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, 11 days after the first round of voting on April 19. Questioned.

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TMC leader Derek O’Brien questioned the Election Commission’s figures, saying that four days after the second phase ended, the Election Commission released the final polling figures. There is an increase of 5.75% in the figures released by the Election Commission 4 days ago. Is this normal? What am I missing here?

Congress also targeted
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said that it is necessary for the Election Commission to release all election related data in a timely and transparent manner and it should make the data public. “For the first time, 11 days after the first phase of voting and four days after the second phase, the final voting percentage has not been published by the Commission,” he said in a post on ‘X’. In the past, the Commission used to make the final voting figures public immediately or within 24 hours after the voting. Only estimated voting figures are available on the Commission’s website. What is the reason for this delay? Ramesh said that apart from this, the number of registered voters in each Lok Sabha constituency and the assembly constituencies included in that Lok Sabha constituency is also not available on the website of the Commission.

What did the Election Commission say?

While officially sharing the voting figures, the Commission said that in the first phase of elections for 102 seats, 66.22 percent male and 66.07 percent female voters exercised their franchise while 31.32 percent of the total registered third gender voters voted. Is. According to the Commission, there was 69.43 percent voting in the first phase of the 2019 elections. The Commission said that the second phase of voting was completed on April 26 in which 66.99 percent of male voters and 66.42 percent of female voters exercised their franchise for 88 seats. In this phase, 23.86% of the registered voters of the third gender voted.

Election Commission clarified…
According to the data, 69.64 percent voting took place in the second phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. According to the Election Commission, out of the 21 states and union territories where voting took place in the first phase, the number of women voters was more in 11. These states include Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. According to the data, voting took place in 13 states and union territories in the second phase, out of which in Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Kerala and West Bengal, the number of women voters was more than men. The Election Commission made it clear that the final voting figures will be available only after counting the postal ballots and adding the total vote count.