Pune records highest voter turnout among urban districts in state

Indapur, Bhor, Ambegaon, Purandar and Khadakwasla are the constituencies wherever the voting percentage, compared to the Lok Sabha, accrued betwixt 5 and 10 per cent. Only Kasba, Kothrud, and Pune Cantonment person reported a flimsy dip successful elector turnout. All different assembly constituencies reported a 1 to 5 per cent rise.

Maval saw the highest emergence successful voting astatine 16 per cent arsenic 72.1 per cent formed their vote. Daund saw a emergence of 12 per cent successful voting with Junnar and Khed Alandi signaling a emergence of 12 per cent each. Junnar saw a emergence of 11 per cent successful voting.

Diwase attributed the emergence successful elector turnout to the extended outreach and sanitization of the voters list. “During the Lok Sabha elections, we filled retired implicit 60,000 forms connected the spot for radical who did not find their names successful the voters list. Also betwixt January and now, implicit 7 lakh caller voters were added to the list,” helium said. As galore arsenic 200 caller polling booths were added and efforts were made to guarantee the voters knew astir them.

Pune territory happened to grounds the highest elector turnout arsenic compared to Thane (56.05), Nagpur (60.49), Mumbai Suburban (55.77) and Mumbai metropolis (52.07). Only Nashik, with a small implicit 67 per cent elector turnout, surprassed Pune successful chiefly urbanized districts.

Diwase said elaborate arrangements person been made for peaceful counting connected November 23. While the 8 assembly constituencies successful Pune metropolis would person their counting astatine the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godown successful Koregaon Park, those of Bhosari and Pimpri would beryllium carried retired successful the Balewadi sports stadium.

Pimpri’s counting would hap astatine Chinchwad portion the different assembly constituencies would spot their counting happening astatine the taluka places.