Key Points
In Nagaland, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Mizoram and Uttarakhand, which went to the polls on April 19 in the first phase, the decline in voter turnout matched a fall in the number of voters..
In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the voter turnout reduced from 65.12% in 2019 to 64.1%, while the number of voters fell by 3.5% from 207,398 to about 200,231..
In the other five states and UTs that finished polling in a day during the first phase, all saw a decrease in voter turnout compared to 2019 but an increase in the number of voters since the number of eligible voters increased..
Sikkim, which saw voter turnout fall from 81.41% in 2019 to 79.91% in 2024, saw a 5% increase in the actual number of voters from 353,415 in 2019 to about 371,140 in 2024..
Similarly, in Tamil Nadu, voter turnout decreased from 72.46% in 2019 to 69.72% in 2024, but the number of voters increased by 1.8% from 42.39 million to about 43.2 million..
