Average Voter Turnout In Haryana, Maharashtra Elections

In today’s Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections, the average voter turnout was slightly low. The voter turnout was 65% in Haryana and 55% in Maharashtra.

While longer queues were seen in rural areas, the voter turnout in urban areas was quite low, especially in Mumbai, where the turnout was merely 37%. The same trend has been observed in the past as well, where rural people demonstrated more enthusiasm and responsibility towards Indian democracy.

One must note that every major party was trying their level best to come out with flying colours in these elections. BJP banked on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal charisma to seek political majority in two key states after abandoning its long-term ally, Shiv Sena. The Congress party broke off with NCP hoping that Sonia-Rahul Gandhi’s charm would help them win hearts as well as votes. And then there was Shiv Sena that asked people to bring Uddhav Thackeray to power and fulfil their leader Bal Thackeray’s last wish.

However, it seems none of the parties could convince people enough to come out in huge numbers and cast their votes.