A total of 48,70,879 (65.64 per cent) voters had cast their vote in the polling for the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha general election 2017 held on February 15. Significantly, the numbers of women voters (69.34 per cent) surged ahead of the men voters whose figure stood at 62.28 percent. The overall voting figure declined as it was 67.22 percent during the 2012 election, said the state’s chief electoral officer Radha Raturi on Tuesday.
According to press note report, a total of 48, 70, 879 voters, including 24, 49, 844 female voters and 24, 21, 019 male voters have voted while in 2012 Assembly election, a total of 42, 19, 925 voters had voted.
As per the statistics, additional 6, 50, 954 voters voted in 2017 in comparison with the 2012 election while additional 13, 27, 899 voters voted in 2017 as compared to the 2007 faceoff. Notably, the voters of Karnprayag constituency have been included in 2007 and 2012 figures. Election to the constituency was countermanded following the death of a BSP candidate a few days before the February 15 election.