NEW DELHI: The curtains came down on the mammoth general election exercise on Saturday, with the seventh and last phase of polling — covering 57 parliamentary constituencies across eight states and 42 assembly seats in Odisha — recording nearly 62% turnout until 11.50pm in the face of soaring temperatures in many parts of the polling … Read more
Neerja Chowdhury, Journalist & Political Commentator, says BJP leaders are super confident that they are already home and dry. It goes without saying that the BJP will form the government. Whatever be the number, BJP is going to be the single largest party and is likely to be invited by the Election Commission of India … Read more
NEW DELHI: Overall voter turnout in the Lok Sabha election’s sixth phase held on Saturday stood revised to over 63.4 per cent by Sunday evening, beating the Phase 5 polling percentage that at 62.2 per cent remains the lowest so far. However, the turnout for Phase 6 is still way lower than the polling in … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain plea by an NGO to direct the Election Commission to upload voter turnout data for each polling station on its website during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The vacation bench, comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma, stated that it would be challenging for … Read more
NEW DELHI: The fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections for 49 seats on Monday saw 62.2% turnout (according to data available at 10.30 pm on Tuesday), which may rise marginally when final data is released by EC. In 2019, the polling in this phase was 62.5%.According to data updated by EC on its voter turnout … Read more
Home News ‘Even Their Own Workers Not Voting’: PM Modi Says Congress, INDIA Bloc ‘Poor Campaigning’ To Blame For Low Voter Turnout PM Modi said this could politically benefit the BJP but stressed that democracy could be better served if more people turnout to vote. Image Credit: PTI Lok Sabha Election 2024: Prime Minister Narendra … Read more
New Delhi: The BJP has been cracking the whip on its workers and leaders ever since a 5-6 percent drop in voting percentages in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections. From chief ministers making 6 am wake-up calls to MLAs on polling days, to dedicated call centres rallying women voters, and workers … Read more
When the country next elects a national government, there will be about 4.5 million Canadians under the age of 30 eligible to vote, a group that demographers have labelled Generation Z, and that pollsters here and around the world say engage in politics in different ways than older voters. The arrival of Generation Z — … Read more
DHAKA: Foreign observers, including those from the US, Canada, Russia, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab Parliament, have termed the just-concluded general elections in Bangladesh as free, fair, and peaceful. The observers praised the election process in Bangladesh, with one of them pointing out that the caretaker government system over which the opposition Bangladesh … Read more