Maharashtra assembly elections 2024: Gadchiroli records highest voter turnout of 50.89%, Mumbai lowest at 27.73%

Maharashtra experienced a low voter turnout of 32.18 percent during its single-phase assembly elections, while the second phase of assembly polls in Jharkhand saw a turnout of 47.92 percent, as reported by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has released the voter turnout figures for the single-phase assembly elections in Maharashtra and the second phase of assembly polls in Jharkhand.

In Maharashtra, the naxal-affected Gadchiroli district achieved the highest voter engagement at 50.89 percent, whereas Mumbai city had the lowest turnout at 27.73 percent by 1 pm.

According to ECI data, voter turnout figures for various districts in Maharashtra were as follows:

- Mumbai Suburban: 30.43 percent

- Nagpur: 31.65 percent

- Thane: 28.35 percent

- Aurangabad: 33.89 percent

- Pune: 29.03 percent

- Nashik: 32.30 percent

- Satara: 34.78 percent

- Kolhapur: 38.56 percent

- Dhule: 34.05 percent

- Palghar: 33.40 percent

- Ratnagiri: 38.52 percent

- Nanded: 28.15 percent

- Latur: 33.27 percent

Additional turnouts in Maharashtra included:

- Sindhudurg: 38.34 percent

- Wardha: 34.55 percent

- Osmanabad: 31.75 percent

- Washim: 29.31 percent

- Yavatmal: 34.10 percent

- Solapur: 29.44 percent

- Sangli: 33.50 percent

- Ahmednagar: 32.90 percent

- Akola: 29.87 percent

- Amravati: 31.32 percent

- Beed: 32.58 percent

- Bhandara: 35.06 percent

- Buldhana: 32.91 percent

- Chandrapur: 35.54 percent

- Gondiya: 40.46 percent

- Hingoli: 35.97 percent

- Jalgaon: 27.88 percent

- Jalna: 36.42 percent

- Nandurbar: 37.40 percent

- Parbhani: 33.12 percent

- Raigad: 34.84 percent

In Jharkhand's second phase of assembly elections, the overall voter turnout was 31.37 percent by 1 pm, with Pakur district reporting the highest turnout at 53.83 percent and Bokaro the lowest at 42.52 percent.

The ECI provided turnout details for several districts in Jharkhand:

- Deoghar: 49.83 percent

- Dhanbad: 43.16 percent

- Dumka: 50.28 percent

- Giridih: 48.01 percent

- Hazaribagh: 48.62 percent

- Jamtara: 52.21 percent

- Ramgarh: 51.26 percent

- Ranchi: 52.10 percent

- Sahebganj: 47.51 percent

Meanwhile the By-elections are also being held in various regions, with Kedarnath in Uttarakhand registering a turnout of 34.40 percent, while Palakkad in Kerala reported a turnout of 40.16 percent by 1 pm.

In Punjab, the bye-election turnouts as of 1 pm varied:

- Gidderbaha: 50.09 percent

- Dera Baba Nanak: 40.40 percent

- Barnala: 28.10 percent

- Chabbewal: 27.95 percent

For Uttar Pradesh by-polls, the turnouts were recorded as follows:

- Meerapur: 36.77 percent

- Majhwan: 31.68 percent

- Khair: 28.80 percent

- Phulpur: 26.67 percent

- Kundarki: 41.01 percent

- Karhal: 32.29 percent

- Katehari: 36.54 percent

- Ghaziabad: 20.92 percent

- Sishmau: 28.50 percent