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Despite multiple campaigns and initiatives by the Election Commission and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to improve voter participation, Bengaluru did not buck the trend of low turnout during the Karnataka Assembly elections on May 10...
Experts and civic group activists attribute the low turnout (Bengaluru: 55%, as compared to 73.19% for entire Karnataka) to errors in voter rolls, like duplication, deletion, and mismatched entries, and voters going from one booth to another searching for their names in the electoral rolls...
The numbers for Bengaluru, released by the Election Commission on My 11, showed a voter turnout of 55%, barring postal votes and home voting..
In February 2023, just before announcing the poll dates, teams of officials from the Election Commission had visited Karnataka to meet local officials and identify the polling stations where the voter turnout was lowest in the 2018 Assembly and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, find out the reasons for the same, and come up with solutions to increase the turnout...
Against the 72.44% voter turnout in Karnataka during the 2018 Assembly elections, the four divisions in Bengaluru BBMP South, North, Central and Bengaluru Urban had recorded around 55% polling..
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