Overall, in all the three phases, 61.57 per cent polling was registered for 29 lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, which is 10.40 per cent more than in the elections in 2009 when 51.17 per cent voters had exercised their franchise.
This increase is a little short of 61.74 percent polling registered in lok Sabha elections of the year 1998 even though counting of 46,042 postal ballots issued to polling staff and service voters remains to be done.
People had participated in electoral process in the third phase in Madhya Pradeshon on Thursday which resulted in 66.66 per cent polling. This is about 12.82 percent more than lok Sabha elections in 2009. Polling percentage in the first phase was 63.55 and second phase 54.64 per cent.
As many as 70.98 per cent male and 62.08 per cent female voters cast their votes in 10 lok Sabha constituencies in the third phase with maximum 71.35 per cent in Mandsaur Parliamentary constituency and minimum 62.25 per cent in Indore. This increase in voting percent was the result of widespread voter education campaign in Madhya Pradesh.
In the third phase, 65.63 per cent polling was registered in Vidisha Parliamentary constituency, Dewas (SC) 70.72 per cent, 66.59 in Ujjain (SC), 71.35 per cent in Mandsaur, 63.52 percent in Ratlam (ST), 64.49 per cent in Dhar (ST), 62.25 in Indore, 67.07 percent in Khargone (ST), 70.99 per cent in Khandwa and 65.15 percent polling was registered in Betul (ST). Polling percentage of other voters was 15.38 in the third phase.
In this way, average of polling in the 3 phases of lok Sabha in 29 constituencies was 61.57 per cent.