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Report on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
December 30 , 2024
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- The Election Commission of India has released a comprehensive statistical report for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
- Registered Electors for Lok Sabha were 97,97,51,847 Electors in 2024 as compared to 91,19,50,734 in 2019.
- Total electors were increased in 2024 over 2019 was 7.43%.
- Of the 97.97 crore registered electors, 47.63 crore were women, up from 43.85 crore in 2019, comprising 48.62% of the total electors compared to 48.09% in 2019.
- Puducherry led with the highest percentage of female electors (53.03%), followed by Kerala (51.56%).
- The female-to-male elector ratio reached a record high of 946 per 1,000 males, up from 926 in 2019.
- 64.64 crore votes polled in 2024, compared to 61.4 crore in 2019.
- Of these, 64.21 crore were EVM votes (32.93 crore male, 31.27 crore female, and 13,058 third gender) and 42.81 lakh were postal ballots.
- Dhubri in Assam recorded the highest turnout at 92.3%, while Srinagar in J&K had the lowest at 38.7%.
- The 2024 Lok Sabha elections featured 10,52,664 polling stations, an increase from 10,37,848 in 2019.
- Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of polling stations at 1,62,069, while Lakshadweep had the fewest with 55.
- Bihar saw the largest increase in polling stations with 4,739 additional stations compared to 2019, followed by West Bengal with 1,731.
- The Highest enrolment of overseas electors in 2024 was recorded in five southern states – Kerala (89,839), Andhra Pradesh (7,927), Telangana (3,470), Tamil Nadu (3,432) and Karnataka (3,148).
- In 2019, as many as 99,844 had registered as overseas electors.
- Several large states such as Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu saw zero turnout of overseas electors.
- Maharashtra had the highest number of female candidates (111), followed by Uttar Pradesh (80) and Tamil Nadu (77).
- However, 152 constituencies had no female candidates.
- Tamil Nadu registered the highest number of third-gender electors (8,467).
- The Independent candidates made up 3,921 of the contestants, with only seven winning seats.
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