Phase-III records 61.4% voter turnout on 93 seats

Close to 62 per cent eligible voters turned up at polling booths across 93 Lok Sabha constituencies on Tuesday in the third phase, as the general elections reached the halfway mark.

-  ARCHIS MOHAN

Votes have now been cast in 283 out of the total 543 Lok Sabha seats.

Till 8pm, the Election Commission (EC) had reported a voter turnout of 61.45 per cent.

In 2019, the BJP had won 71 of these 93 seats and also Surat, where polling was not held as the BJP's candidate has already been declared elected.

The EC also released the data of total number of electors in each of the constituencies that polled on Tuesday.

The voting turnout in phases I and II of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls was 66.14 per cent and 66.71 per cent, respectively. The final voter turnout figure for these two phases had seen an upward revision of nearly five per cent from the data collated and released by the EC until the evening of these polling days.

According to a State Bank of India (SBI) Research paper released Monday, the revised voter turnout in phases I and II was lower by 3.1 per cent if compared with the corresponding phases of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.