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Uttar Pradesh reported a voter turnout of 60.03 per cent in the 7th and the last phase of polling on Wednesday. This is likely to go up marginally as people were still waiting in lines to cast their votes for the 40 Assembly constituencies in seven districts which went to the polls.
During the 2012 Assembly elections, these constituencies had reported a voter turnout of 57.56 per cent.
Manipur, which saw the second and last round of polling in 22 Assembly constituencies in 10 districts, reported a voter turnout of 86 per cent in 75 per cent of the polling stations for which voter turnout figures were available on Wednesday. “There is no communication with almost 25 per cent of the polling stations where polls also took place on Wednesday. Therefore, the voter turnout from these areas will be known in a few days when the poll parties return,” Sudeep Jain, Director-General, Election Commission, said.
During the 2012 Assembly polls, these constituencies had reported a voter turnout of 79.29 per cent. Polling in both Uttar Pradesh and Manipur passed off peacefully officials said adding that there was no poll boycott in Manipur.
In Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi, the constituency which Narendra Modi represents in Parliament, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur and Jaunpur were among the seven districts which went to the polls on Wednesday.
Women voters
Uttar Pradesh saw a larger turnout of women voters as compared to men during the first six phases of elections, compared to the State elections in 2012. During the first six phases of polls this year, the women voter turnout was 63.26 per cent, an increase of 2.9 per cent over the 60.36 per cent recorded during 2012. In comparison, male voter turnout in the first six phases in 2017 recorded an increase of 0.18 per cent at 59.43 per cent, against 59.25 in 2012.
Uttar Pradesh has seen an increase in voter turnout in the first six phases during 2017 as compared to the 2012, the figures released by the Commission show. This year, during the sixth phase, the final voter turnout stood at 56.98 per cent as compared to 54.62 per cent in 2012.
In the first phase, the State reported a voter turnout of 63.84 per cent as compared to 61.04 per cent in 2012 while in the second phase the voter turnout finally settled at 66.16 per cent as against 65.17 per cent in 2012. During the third stage the final turnout was 61.43 per cent as compared to 59.96 per cent in 2012, while in the fourth phase the final turnout was 61.21 per cent (60.20 per cent). In the fifth phase, the state reported a final turnout of 57.30 per cent as compared to 57.05 per cent in 2012.
Record seizure
In this year’s elections, the State also reported a “record seizure” of cash at ₹122.26 crore, up from ₹36.29 crore and liquor worth ₹65.31 crore against ₹6.16 lakh in 2012. During the 2017 elections in Uttar Pradesh, the total seizure in the State stood at ₹223.39 crore and included ₹ 9.61 crore of drugs and gold and silver worth ₹25.61 crore.
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