Highest turnout in Hrishyamukh

Tripura set a new record of having the country’s highest ever voter turnout in the Hrishyamukh assembly segment of East Tripura parliament constituency with an average of 90.68 percent turnout recorded, an official of the state election authority said on 13^th April, 2014. Hrishyamukh assembly segment was followed by Jolaibari with a very narrow margin of difference in between. Tripura Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ashutosh Jindal said that the highest voter turnout was recorded in the South Tripura district. Polling stations under the district recorded an average of 85 percent voter turnout. The top election official added that the North Tripura district recorded an average voter turnout of 75 percent on April 12. The state maintained the highest position in voter turnout graph so far in any state of the country with approximately 85 percent of the state’s electorate voting for the state in the two-phase parliament polls which concluded with polling in the East Tripura constituency on Saturday.

The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that average voter turnout was recorded between 81 percent till 83 percent. The state recorded a turnout of 84.45 percent in 2009 parliament election. The figures stood at 67.39 percent in 2004.

A total of 23 lakh 83 thousand 146 voters would be exercising their adult franchise right in the Lok Sabha election this year. 12 lakh 46 thousand 19 of them are male and 11 lakh 37 thousand 127 are female voters as per electoral rolls published on 6^th January earlier this year. Around 15 thousand security, poll personnel and service electors cast their votes through postal ballots.

Tripura recorded 93.57 percent voter turnout in the 2013 state legislative assembly polls.

Out of 11,38,765 voters in the West Tripura constituency, 5 lakh 40 thousand 497 were male voters, 5 lakh 58 thousand 267 are female voters.