NEW DELHI: Whole voter turnout in Part 2 of the continuing J&Okay election was 57.3%, increased than the 52.2% polling recorded in 2024 Lok Sabha polls however decrease than the 61.8% turnout in 2014 meeting polls in addition to 61.4% in Part 1 of the present ballot.
Mata Vaishno Devi, a brand new meeting constituency (AC) carved out within the delimitation train of 2022, recorded the best turnout in Part 2, at 80.5%, whereas Habbakadal AC in Srinagar polled a mere 19.8% votes.
Whereas the general feminine voters’ turnout for Part 2 polling in J&Okay, at 56.2%, was 2.1 share factors lower than 58.3% male polling share, girls’s turnout exceeded that of males in 11 of 26 meeting constituencies that voted on Wednesday. Ten of those 11 constituencies are in Jammu division, whereas just one — Khansahib — is in Kashmir Valley.
Turnouts had been increased throughout the Valley’s Budgam, Ganderbal and Srinagar districts as in comparison with 2024 LS polls, however considerably decrease in Ganderbal and Budgam, in comparison with the 2014 meeting polls. Although Srinagar district recorded a low turnout of round 30.1%, it was higher than the 24.8% and 27.7% polling recorded in each 2024 LS elections and 2014 J&Okay polls respectively.
In Jammu division, all three districts — Reasi, Rajouri and Poonch — recorded decrease turnouts than the 2014 meeting polls. Polling in Rajouri and Poonch was higher than in 2024 LS elections, however barely decrease in Reasi. Whereas Reasi, the place the decline was the sharpest since 2014, had seen a serious terror assault in June with 9 individuals killed after terrorists fired on a bus, Rajouri and Poonch have seen fierce encounters between the safety forces and terrorists within the current months.
The hole between female and male voter turnout was large in lots of constituencies of Kashmir area; like, it was over 10.6 share factors in Zadibal AC, 10.4 in Budgam AC, 9.9 in Lal Chowk AC and 9.6 in Habbakadal AC. Habbakadal by far has recorded the bottom turnout in J&Okay with a mere 23% of its male citizens and 16.7% of its feminine citizens turning out to vote. Ladies voters’ turnout in Eidgah AC and Central Shalteng AC in Srinagar district was decrease by virtually 8.3 share factors every.
In Jammu, increased participation of girls appeared to pushed up the general turnouts. Barring Mata Vaishno Devi, the place feminine voting share was a marginal 0.7 share factors decrease than males’s, ACs in Jammu area noticed girls voters’ turnout surpass males’s by something between 4.1 and 11.1 share factors. In Kalakote-Sundarbani, which recorded the bottom polling share in Jammu area, simply 64% of it male voters forged their franchise; nonetheless, feminine voters saved the day with over 74% participation, taking the AC turnout to a good 68.8%.
