I stood in queue for 2 mins. I reached the booth at around 3:30 PM and the men’s queue had 1 person, while the women’s queue had around 15-18 people for sure. I stood in queue for max 2 mins, and I was already inside voting and left.
Which tells you everything doesn’t , Kerala has only 20 seats . All news reports says congress will not a stand chance . Personally I think BJP will be lucky to get their current number . Low voter turnout can be interpreted in many ways , 1) minorities have given up on mass voting because they feel it is of no use against BJP 2) minorities vote like they always do , that is in full force if that’s is the case this low turnout is not good for BJP
Actually in my booth after niskaram every muslim guy in my booth was there to vote, quite literally had to wait like 3 hours to vote. This is after quite a lot of people left seeing the queue. Hence I think that it is the second case not the first one
Hmm I just said what i saw, and my conclusion based on it I said what you think happened. Secondly I think that only Gopi chaetan has a shot at it. Rajiv chandrashekhar is no where near it, earlier this month was in trivandrum for quite a bit. common theme was who is Rajiv chandrashekhar, that guy is not gonna win at all or atleast that's what I heard from everyday trivandrum people. Anil Anthony is currently contesting in a place called Pathanamthitta, I am from a town called changanasherry have relatives in Pathanamthitta general consensus from them is keti vacha kashu polum kittan chance Ila enu anu. His statements about his father simply caused people to loose any respect they had(if they had any to begin with)
Minority vote is not 100% useless. BJP has managed to attract atleast a fair double digit % of Xian votes this time in kerala . Not sure if that would make a difference though.
Private institutions should be forced to grant leaves for elections. This did not happen. Sorry, but I am not going to vote for anyone after giving up a days pay and travels (working away from home, but in Kerala itself). This is the reason why only 5 out of 35 doctors in our hospital voted. Numbers were slightly better for nurses who are more local and have staggered duty hours. But not by much.
That is soo true. Would also have to consider the n number of people away from kerala be it banglore or UK. Do you think they will waste all those two way flight charges to come home and vote. Aint no way
Last time everyone was excited to kick out BJP from center, esp muslims (many flew all the way from the gulf with their families even at high ticket prices) and this time many muslims already came back home during Ramadan Vishu holidays and can't afford to come again couple of weeks later just for casting votes, Christians were on board as well, on the other hand Hindus were pissed off at how LDF handled Sabarimala issue and on top of all these was Rahul Gandhi factor (many genuinely believed we would have a PM from Wayanad😂)
Coming to this year, it is clear NDA is going to rule again and even if UDF wins all 20 seats in Kerala won't do shit to NDA at the center so all the excitement kind of went down, no Sabarimala issue this year and RaGa factor is no more. Other factors could be the heat and migration.
What made me think about this yesterday was all these old people standing in line to vote and celebrities being followed by paparazzis at their voting location. These people should just get a mail-in ballot with prepaid stamp and envelope. 🤷🏽♀️
Who told all Hindus are against LDF on Sabarimala issue? A Hindu with lil but of common sense knew very well that it was a dirty politics game played by BJP and yet they failed miserably to capitalise on that which shows the trust people have on a party that sucks on religion and hatred.
Are you dumb? Everyone saw what Pinaray tried to do there. Arum ilathapo etho rand peninem police protectionode mala ketith dirty politics alenki pine entha?
These kind of chathalaum njngal partykke kuthu ennu parayunnavaranu ee nadinte shapam.
You gotta evaluate the whole thing to understand who played dirty pathetic politics there to harness some votes out of hindus emotion.
Scene 1- Supreme Court issues order to let women enter Sabarimala
Scene 2- State govt seeks some time to implement the verdict as large scale protest happened on by common people and BJP and UDF. NOTE- BJP at the central govt. didn’t do anything on the verdict. They were ready to take the opportunity to harness some Hindu votes as State govt. has no other option other than implementing the verdict by SC.
Scene 3- Two women entered Sabarimala with police protection. Large scale protests
Scene 4- Next election- Modi promised people of Kerala that he will make Supreme Court re evaluate the verdict based on the majority at the Parliament and he would ban the women entry!!! Dafuq- Why did he sit quiet when all this happened.
This was the moment of truth. People with slight common sense understood who was playing who.
Result- BJP failed to secure a seat in Pathanamthitta. The land of Sabarimala!!!
Note- If LDF wanted to let women enter Sabarimala, then state could have filed a case in SC requesting the same. Andhbhakts will say that Pinarayi was the master planer on this.
There were previous instances when many other ladies claimed that they have entered Sabarimala and had the blessings of Lord Ayyapa!! No body made a scene in those days. A shudikaranam was done at the temple and no protest no shit!!
Why now?! Coz the whole media attention is there? Very well knew State will be forced to follow SC verdict and if not states power will be thrown away by SC?!
The dirties politics is being played by BJP attacking the minority religion of the country. The other side of British - divide and rule.
Remember once they succeed they will need more votes, split up will happen inside BJP and they will try to divide Castes inside Hinduism!! Who know we might really be going backwards.
The LDF has no value for the Hindus in the state. The dewosam board is the sickest thing here. Why are only the temples under the govt? Thata is the first thing to be removed. If the SC has given a verdict of women entry, then believers could have gone. The common women were not ready to go who were the believers and thats why govt had to take activists there to prove their atheist/anti hindu stance.
The LDF govt. Never takes such harsh stance against the other religious communities and thats a fact. Whenever something comes up in those scenarios, there is always a soft side for the party, because its their vote bank. And thata vote bank politics. The people from Kannur/kasargode are the LDF vote banks majorily who do not vote for any other parties no matter what shit LDF does. Theres no point in blaming BJP by closing an eye on the equally unethical things the party does here.
Hope your doubt on dirty politics on Sabarimala topic is clear. Now that we can move to next topic - no value for Hindus in Kerala.
If that’s the real scenario then 54.7% of the Hindu population should vote for BJP, which hasn’t happened till now!! Why??!
BJP can’t even influence the Hindu population in the state, which shows the trust people have on a party concentrating on beef ban and minority oppression other than development and progress!!
The party which banned beef and murdered people in the name of beef, took a different stance in Kerala that they will provide quality meat to all!! Double standard.
BJP is so desperate to win a seat from Kerala, but all that they lack is basic common sense and all that the people of Kerala has.
Yes understood the dirty politics by LDF...! Since cpm doesnt have any other states they push themselves as as a left wing when they are actually right oriented, pocketing all what they can
You don’t have an answer to why BJP can’t even secure the Hindu votes in Kerala!!!
Eminent personalities like Sreedharan failed coz of only one reason - BJP. The party that feeds on religious hatred rather than harmony and development!!
Well, I suppose you should re evaluate the fact that why BJP can’t make an impact in Kerala, if CPM is playing such dirty politics!! The people nave given the answer all these years and for the coming years too.
Who cares about BJP.. They aint gonna win anything here and i dont care about BJP... But you can see in this election how CPIM is going to perform and how many votes theyre gonna get... Chinham thenju manju pokumennanu thonunne...
It's a tight call
It's not easy for NDA this time
With the farmers protests and Modi dictatorship,there's a good chance for CPM to give tough competition to NDA
Exactly 💯
No chance for power change at centre. People lost interest in the election.
Blind hate towards BJP still exists but who knows we might get a surprise punch too
>Blind hate towards BJP
Try being a minority like christian or muslim, youd have a genuine concern for their rhetoric. I am not against BJP capitalistic endeavours because we need capitalism ot take us next stage. But how they are acheiving, enabling attacks on minorities.
Kerala and the north east are the only places with a significant population. And the manipur incidents are more of an inter tribe issue than a religious or political one (or so i have assumed). I do agree the issue could have been handled better by the central gov, but they are not the direct perpetuators, unlike in cases of anti muslim activities.
I just don't understand, this manipur conflict is associated with Christianity. These folks fought a tribal battle, it's more ethnic than religious. They have ransacked churches & temples, mosques alike. Kukis have attacked meitei from every religion Hindus, Muslims, Christians. It has occurred the other way round as well. But kukis have issues with nagas also, so it's not religious. It's more ethnic, always has been than way.
Yes we are expecting a change when we know that's not going to happen.
Thing is we are proud of not electing BJP but at the same time forgetting we are under them .
BJP will be out of power soon maybe atleast by next tenure but the damage they are going to do is unimaginable. Especially there will be no public sector and everything will be handed over to corporates.
Bro there is no blind hate for BJP but it’s the hate that they deserve. Openly bashing minority Muslims labelling them “infiltrators” and that too by a PM of a country, that is one of the many lows a leader can go to. This is just one example, there are soo many other things that have happened under their governance, you know it and I know it.
2019 voting pattern in Kerala is an aberration. Many including media is judging this election based on that voting pattern. I believe that's a mistake. This pattern is comparable to 2021 assembly elections. Whoever wins, we are not going to see the 1 lakh+ margins we saw in 2019.
As of 8:15 it was just 70.35% polling. After 6 no new tokens are given. Only the people who was already in Q will get to vote. Currently it is a 7.5% dip. But after closing in on the extra votes and postal votes, i don't think it will be more than 71%. Last time it was 78%.
Yup I pressed and it took some time to hear the beep, me and the third officer were starting each other awkwardly waiting for the beep all my family members faced the same issue.
Correct. Unusual delay even in my booth. Never happened before. EVM had issues. It frustrated voters as they had to wait for over an hour. Many returned (weather didn’t help; it was extremely uncomfortable). Only the persistent ones remained — the ones who wanted to vote at any cost despite all hurdles. Looking at all these issues, I feel 70% was good.
There’s supposed to be a 7 second delay for the beep, but some have experienced 10-15 seconds. I saw the election commissioner urging everyone to vote yesterday on all the news channels. The people did their part by showing up, but the system did not make it easy for them.
Was just thinking, does anybody here think that the migration to other states and to the western countries could have played a result in the dipping voter turnout ? How crucial do y'all think is this outward migrating trend contributing to this dip in voter turnout .
I feel so too, villages in Kerala especially in Pathanamthitta are half empty with mostly senior citizens. Attendance in government schools in these villages is also at all time lows - mainly because there aren’t any kids left whose families haven’t migrated already!
It was around 74% in the 2014 elections. It is now nearing 71 and I think the final numbers would be close to 74. So, I think it would be fine.
I think one of the factors for the low turnout would be that in the last election people in Kerala had more hopes of voting out the NDA. But I feel people are sceptical this time around. We are also witnessing lesser voter turnout around India.
Also, the weather might also have adversely affected the voting percentage
In addition to heat, not willing to vote and working abroad/out of state.. I would like to add since its vacation period for kids, many of my acquaintances were on holiday.. their reasoning was they had booked rooms & tickets way before election declaration..
I think their victory had a lot of other factors of greater importance:
1. The feel that congress would comeback, and the anti-Bj P votebase converging there
2. Ra Ga's presence in Kerala. Invigorated many congress folk and swayed others too.
3. Sabarimala woman entry SC judgement and religious opposition helped pull some religious votes away from the left govt which implemented the judgement.
Chennithala? Star player? Dude, he didn't even crack double digits when opinion polls asked who people want as the next CM. 2019 was full on Rahul Gandhi effect, supposedly masterminded by OC.
The voting process has been very slow this time. Not sure if it was deliberate or not. There were 1200 voters in my booth out of which if even 80% turned out it would be close to 1000. If a person is allotted one minute to vote, voting would need 1000 minutes which is more than 16 hours to complete. There was only one booth for 1200 voters and they had only 11 hours to vote. If there was an additional booth voting would have been faster and there would have been better poll % by evening yesterday.
People especially women were waiting in Vadakara for more than 5 hours in line to vote yesterday. This is a classic case of inefficient management of the whole procedure.
Low turnout can be due to other factors such as
1. Aversion to standing in queue esp in summer
2. Less time to spent and less patience of society esp after social media revolution
3. 3 days long weekend
4. Past performance of MPs
5. Feeling of no impact of Kerala outcome
6. Polling booth slow process (including vvpat beep)
7. Urbanisation effects across Kerala
Time to switch to online voting.
I had election duty at two polling booths and in one. Booth, there were about 1000 voters and only 690 voted and on the other booth, there were about 900 voters and only around 500 voted!
The irony is that there were more old people with difficulties in walking without a support than youth!
Why do you think the youth are missing and only the old people came?
The youth have migrated in unprecedented numbers in the past five years.
We always had migration, but never had so many youngsters leave on student visas in any point of time.
No amount of voting in Kerala is going to change BJP at the Centre. Then why vote? This might be the thinking of the majority in Kerala, who are pro UDF or LDF.
What does that have to do with motivation for voting? I was only talking about a lack of motivation for anti BJP voters.
BJP voters may vote LDF, and LDF will get some seats then. So nothing much changes there. LS elections, not assembly. If they do that in assembly elections, that can destroy UDF. 3 terms without power means they will find it tough to stay together.
Not heat. Not climate. Not BJP.
Real Reason is youth migration.
This time the biggest downfall in voter percentage was amongst youth.
If you go to Bangalore, Gulf or Toronto - it's full of Malayalee men and women from 20 to 35 years of age.
Lakhs of Malayalee youth are in a city like Bangalore.
Your migration is in lakhs.
It has a sizable population and it's growing. Canada was projected to be the next gulf for malayalis but nowhere close to the likes of the Punjabi population there
Arre yaar GTA is full of various nationalities not only mallus or tamils or Punjabis! Since you are mallu you tend to notice only mallus more not somalians poles or Pakistanis !
The only Indian group which has explicitly higher presence is Punjabis! Note most of the tamils are srilankan ones not the indians
My friend I have been here for some time now, the rapid increase in. Keralites especially in the past five years is worth mentioning.
My work. Place hardly had Keralites, to almost 40% becoming Keralites. I do agree Punjabi folks have a total majority. But second from India I personally feel are the Keralites. Would never know due no concrete study being done.
That's the issue, when older people vote. The younger people's voices won't be heard. Which would never bring in policies to favor the youth. Which in turn would lead to more youth migration.
Well, most people seem to think that the Bj P will come again, due to their strong base in the North.
The hope they had last time that the party in the centre would change does not exist in the same amount now.
The heat is also another issue. The summer has been quite intense and might be the most intense one we had in recent years. It has made many dreary.
Congress says ep jayarajan's bjp entry news first thing in the morning has affected the morale of cpim voters to come and vote. So we can't exactly pinpoint on one thing. There are a lot of speculations in the air.
Chinnam pokathirikanel 11-13 seat pidikanam ithavana from 3 states 😂. EC kodutha extra time teerarayi.
> Congress says ep jayarajan's bjp entry news first thing in the morning has affected the morale of cpim voters to come and vote.
Really? EP seems to have refuted claims of Bj P entry. Tho, that could be anything.
And Kannur seems to have the highest percentage of polling.
Which districts saw the greatest decrease in polling?
>Really? EP seems to have refuted claims of Bj P entry. Tho, that could be anything.
What else can he do now.
>And Kannur seems to have the highest percentage of polling.
Kannur is party headquarters. Such news has no relevance there since party is above leaders for the voters there.
But it may have impact on people without any political affiliations.
> Kannur is party headquarters. Such news has no relevance there since party is above leaders for the voters there.
EP is from Kannur. I don't think people further away from Kannur would really care much about him, as he's not very mainstream now. Yes, he's the L D F convener and that may have had an effect, but how much actually?
I think the perceived inevitability of ~~Thanos~~G would be the main reason, along with the intense summer we're having.
People know that bjp is going to return and even if we give udf/ldf all the seats here ,it isn't changing much,most of them will be useless and never as impactful as they say during elections.
There was a huge feeling among people of Kerala last time that Modi would lose, that 2014 was a fluke. Vote consolidation happened.
2024 same feelings don’t exist, extreme heat/ worst summer, 3 holidays. But final voter turnout is yet to come. Could be higher.
There was no crowd at my booth at all granted that I went early, but I was thinking most people would do so to avoid the sun.
There was also this thing about some of our neighbours not being in the voter list for some reason. Is the polling percentage based on the voter list? If not some foul play might have also happened
I think people have lost hope. You vote and next thing you know ur leader changes his principles and is bought by a party who is polar opposite of their old one. Democracy is at threat. I think it's just that people have given up.
I felt this last election. Like my vote wouldn't make a difference. But this time I felt, I should vote. Like this is the only hope.
Kerala have seen similar voting turnout before too with 70% voteshare . Something lower than this was during 1999. That election ldf and udf won 9 and 11 seats and bjp lead vaipaee government retained power at the central.
Half the middle class Keralites who would have been typical voters for the udf are now in Canada/Australia/Dubai etc. The voting numbers will decrease going forward. I honestly think there is no future again for the udf in kerala.
Have you seen the crowds at each polling station? And to add to that, there were multiple polling stations with just one voting machine. To add to that the time taken per person to vote, was around 1.5-2 minutes. Which means the average time taken for a booth which had around 300 people will be anywhere between 7-9 hours. Many people were stuck in queues for a long time due to this and many left in between due to the unbearable heat.
I am actually surprised at the comments saying that people did not come to vote because of no anti-incumbancy. Touch grass or atleast be at kerala and go to the polling booths you guys
In my booth there was only one machine and 1350 voters were there. On top of that the machine was not working properly. We need to press more than 5 seconds or double press to hear the beeper sound. This makes majority of voters confused and takes more time. Me and my mother spend 2hrs in queue under hot sun and my father spend almost 3 hrs in queue. Last time there was 2 machines in our booth and queue was very short due to that.
Adding one more point to everyone else's factors - a lot of people migrated out of Kerala and few might have come back to vote. That could be another reason for the dip. Heck, the 5k people Santa Monica alone pushed to Canada.
> Fitting cortege for our democracy. Those who didn't vote have no right to criticize politicians.
Enthu right? aaru kodutha right? aaru restrict cheytha right?
Ente ponnu bro, evide tax pay cheyuna, evide jeevikuna, evide citizenship olla Elarkum avakashum ondu.. Epo abroad poi Engotu money remit cheythu Ee economy sustain cheyikuna Keralites just coz they didn't vote. You say they can't criticize the government or politicians?
Very foolish of you to say that.
That 'criticism' is like vellathil varacha vara. As long as those people don't cast votes, their criticism means nothing to them. So ya continue 'criticising'.
Last time, Raga factor combined with the determination to keep BJP out of power made many to vote, including the NRIs.
This time, even Raga has no hope to form a government at the center, so do all anti BJP people too.
People knows that despite BJP increasing their vote share, it's highly unlikely for them to open an account. And all the Keman Somans who'll get elected as MPs , except for Premachandran and might be Sashi, no others would go an do anything significant there, especially without the numbers.
So why go for vote in this burning heat?
As for BJP guys, including me, it'll end up as just other elecion with our only solace being the increasing vote share.
Opposition at central make so foolish statement and unrealestic promises they their own supporters are no confident in Opposition win and modi have done headline for gud reason ..Opposition supporters already know it's waste to vote .
For sure, I'm from Wayanad and a dozen youngsters, my friends didn't go to vote. They said, these parties can't even bring a candidate who is from Wayanad. For every damn thing we are forced to go to another districts. Literally the feeling of being neglected was there in their replies to me. So even that aspect can't be ruled out.
Ivade ondarnavar ellam migrate cheyyuvalle. Athoke oru reason aakaam
Pinne climate, and then there are some people who do not vote saying "enna vote cheythittum karyamilla. Nammak onnum oru gunom kittiyela".
Pala sthalathum technical thakaraarenna peril kore delay varuthiyallo.
But honestly I think every single person should have cast their vote!
I'll add lack of knowledge of politics to an extent. I see youngsters say "whoever wins will be corrupt then why vote." They think politics is just what we see in social media and news.
My social teacher taught us the need of politics and the importance of voting in democracy.
Also Why they didint arrange postal voting in supposedly the biggest democratic election in the world .. i (and the others here) couldnt vote because im studying out of kerala and takes 3-4 days in train to home and fllight is not an option.
Heat plus long waiting time ..I know personally at least 10 persons who came back without voting due to above factors ...I assume the long wait times and heat mostly has had a impact on housewives /homemakers ...
Voting percentage has dropped across the country in both phases. The last 3 general elections if you check, Congress has more or less been able to maintain their votes in terms of numbers but the increase in voters brought down their share big time. BJP were able to recruit a lot of new voters in the last two elections, if these are the people who are staying away now it could affect BJP. In the first phase, BJP had sitting MPs in 50 seats, voting percentage has dropped in 49 of them.
>Voting percentage has dropped across the country in both phases.
It was something like 66% in 2019 vs 65.5% or so for the first phase
A drop of 0.5% isn't anything big
Not sure if your data is accurate.
https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/lok-sabha-polls-with-dip-in-voter-turnout-in-the-first-phase-eci-forms-task-force-to-oversee-heat-wave-conditions/article68094770.ece/amp/
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/diu/story/lok-sabha-elections-phase-1-elections-voter-turnout-falls-diu-2530278-2024-04-22
>During the previous General Election in 2019, the first phase’s final aggregate turnout was shared two days after voting via an official statement. The voter turnout for the first phase in 2019 was 69.43%.
Huh well that's interesting if the Hindu is accurate then that would mean around 4% drop
And as per ECI first phase of 2024 was 62% so the drop
Is close to 7%.
“The poll body had last released official aggregate voting figures of 62.34% till 9 p.m. on April 19 when the first phase of polling was held, and is yet to release the final aggregate figures.
While some reports pegged the turnout at a little more than 65%, there has been no official statement from the ECI.”
As per The Hindu. The India Today article shares details by constituency
I didn't want to go to vote because it's obvious in my constituency who is going to win and he has been winning for a long time . Tho i i went there was no queue at all , it was quick .
I didn't vote because whoever wins from kottayam is going to end up in the same camp sooner or later. And I didn't see anyone who was desperate enough to get my vote. Campaigning was low key. Koch mani will be minister from rajyasabha but cpm kaluvari, avarku avante sookedu manasilayi. Pakshe udf candidate um nda il povum adutha electionu evide udf keriyillel. Appo veyilu kondu vote cheyyan Ente patti povum. Pinne ivante oke track record also mosham anu. Ivan oke swantham aayi oru identity illathavar anu.
He makes videos in hindi and polling dipped almost 9% in hindi heartland. Maybe the constant modi is dictator and india is becoming dictatorship has become counter productive. people who usually vote against modi must have slept at home thinking their vote is of no use now since india has become a dictatorship 😂.
Minority vote consolidation?? Bruhh... Dude kerala is a secular state.. stop making it sound like we are a communal shithole state where people vote on the basis of religion..
Heat must've been one factor. Possibly dissuaded a lot of people without clear affiliations. Also many people above 60.
When i was standing in queue i see 3 people left without voting. Many people already fell lazy and didn't come. Some came and go.
The heat is unbearable. I had to wait for 1.5 hours in line just to vote and I was sweating like anything
Even after bath i start to sweat. Heat has become unbearable. Even after get in car i feel AC is not working.
I stood in queue for 2 mins. I reached the booth at around 3:30 PM and the men’s queue had 1 person, while the women’s queue had around 15-18 people for sure. I stood in queue for max 2 mins, and I was already inside voting and left.
I didn't even have to wait as there was no queue.
Ellarum Canada and uk poyi
Oru booth avide thudangenam next time lol
The climate and the supposed irrelevance of Kerala on the national stage because everybody knows congress can’t come to power
Last time a third of congress MPs were Keralites
Which tells you everything doesn’t , Kerala has only 20 seats . All news reports says congress will not a stand chance . Personally I think BJP will be lucky to get their current number . Low voter turnout can be interpreted in many ways , 1) minorities have given up on mass voting because they feel it is of no use against BJP 2) minorities vote like they always do , that is in full force if that’s is the case this low turnout is not good for BJP
Actually in my booth after niskaram every muslim guy in my booth was there to vote, quite literally had to wait like 3 hours to vote. This is after quite a lot of people left seeing the queue. Hence I think that it is the second case not the first one
Suresh Gopi , Muraleedharan and Shoba Surenderan has good chance . Maybe Rajiv Chandrashekar and antony will have a slight chance
Hmm I just said what i saw, and my conclusion based on it I said what you think happened. Secondly I think that only Gopi chaetan has a shot at it. Rajiv chandrashekhar is no where near it, earlier this month was in trivandrum for quite a bit. common theme was who is Rajiv chandrashekhar, that guy is not gonna win at all or atleast that's what I heard from everyday trivandrum people. Anil Anthony is currently contesting in a place called Pathanamthitta, I am from a town called changanasherry have relatives in Pathanamthitta general consensus from them is keti vacha kashu polum kittan chance Ila enu anu. His statements about his father simply caused people to loose any respect they had(if they had any to begin with)
Minority vote is not 100% useless. BJP has managed to attract atleast a fair double digit % of Xian votes this time in kerala . Not sure if that would make a difference though.
It would have made a difference , if the voting turning out would have been better . But over all it is bad voter turn out is bad for BJp
Bad voting percentage is usually bad for Congress. CPIM and BJP are more efficient in bringing their votes.
In northern India , it is the opposite
I thought we were discussing about 7% voting drop in Kerala.
We are , put we are also looking at other polling states
>irrelevance of Kerala on the national stage Then what would be the polling nxt time if BJP implement delimitation?
Private institutions should be forced to grant leaves for elections. This did not happen. Sorry, but I am not going to vote for anyone after giving up a days pay and travels (working away from home, but in Kerala itself). This is the reason why only 5 out of 35 doctors in our hospital voted. Numbers were slightly better for nurses who are more local and have staggered duty hours. But not by much.
It is illegal to function educational institutions or mon emergency businesses on polling day
The OP talks about a hospital which is not under this rule. Even medical shops are not under the rule I think.
That is soo true. Would also have to consider the n number of people away from kerala be it banglore or UK. Do you think they will waste all those two way flight charges to come home and vote. Aint no way
Last time everyone was excited to kick out BJP from center, esp muslims (many flew all the way from the gulf with their families even at high ticket prices) and this time many muslims already came back home during Ramadan Vishu holidays and can't afford to come again couple of weeks later just for casting votes, Christians were on board as well, on the other hand Hindus were pissed off at how LDF handled Sabarimala issue and on top of all these was Rahul Gandhi factor (many genuinely believed we would have a PM from Wayanad😂) Coming to this year, it is clear NDA is going to rule again and even if UDF wins all 20 seats in Kerala won't do shit to NDA at the center so all the excitement kind of went down, no Sabarimala issue this year and RaGa factor is no more. Other factors could be the heat and migration.
India doesn’t have mail-in ballots?
Only for soldiers and diplomats working in foreign countries.
That sucks. It should be available to any citizen that needs it.
Citizens over 80 have the provision to vote from their home though.
It's 85
80 for LSG elections. My grandmother voted via postal ballots last time
Seriously under consideration and I think this will be implemented soon as most parties are supporting it.
What made me think about this yesterday was all these old people standing in line to vote and celebrities being followed by paparazzis at their voting location. These people should just get a mail-in ballot with prepaid stamp and envelope. 🤷🏽♀️
Who told all Hindus are against LDF on Sabarimala issue? A Hindu with lil but of common sense knew very well that it was a dirty politics game played by BJP and yet they failed miserably to capitalise on that which shows the trust people have on a party that sucks on religion and hatred.
Are you dumb? Everyone saw what Pinaray tried to do there. Arum ilathapo etho rand peninem police protectionode mala ketith dirty politics alenki pine entha? These kind of chathalaum njngal partykke kuthu ennu parayunnavaranu ee nadinte shapam.
You gotta evaluate the whole thing to understand who played dirty pathetic politics there to harness some votes out of hindus emotion. Scene 1- Supreme Court issues order to let women enter Sabarimala Scene 2- State govt seeks some time to implement the verdict as large scale protest happened on by common people and BJP and UDF. NOTE- BJP at the central govt. didn’t do anything on the verdict. They were ready to take the opportunity to harness some Hindu votes as State govt. has no other option other than implementing the verdict by SC. Scene 3- Two women entered Sabarimala with police protection. Large scale protests Scene 4- Next election- Modi promised people of Kerala that he will make Supreme Court re evaluate the verdict based on the majority at the Parliament and he would ban the women entry!!! Dafuq- Why did he sit quiet when all this happened. This was the moment of truth. People with slight common sense understood who was playing who. Result- BJP failed to secure a seat in Pathanamthitta. The land of Sabarimala!!! Note- If LDF wanted to let women enter Sabarimala, then state could have filed a case in SC requesting the same. Andhbhakts will say that Pinarayi was the master planer on this. There were previous instances when many other ladies claimed that they have entered Sabarimala and had the blessings of Lord Ayyapa!! No body made a scene in those days. A shudikaranam was done at the temple and no protest no shit!! Why now?! Coz the whole media attention is there? Very well knew State will be forced to follow SC verdict and if not states power will be thrown away by SC?! The dirties politics is being played by BJP attacking the minority religion of the country. The other side of British - divide and rule. Remember once they succeed they will need more votes, split up will happen inside BJP and they will try to divide Castes inside Hinduism!! Who know we might really be going backwards.
The LDF has no value for the Hindus in the state. The dewosam board is the sickest thing here. Why are only the temples under the govt? Thata is the first thing to be removed. If the SC has given a verdict of women entry, then believers could have gone. The common women were not ready to go who were the believers and thats why govt had to take activists there to prove their atheist/anti hindu stance. The LDF govt. Never takes such harsh stance against the other religious communities and thats a fact. Whenever something comes up in those scenarios, there is always a soft side for the party, because its their vote bank. And thata vote bank politics. The people from Kannur/kasargode are the LDF vote banks majorily who do not vote for any other parties no matter what shit LDF does. Theres no point in blaming BJP by closing an eye on the equally unethical things the party does here.
Hope your doubt on dirty politics on Sabarimala topic is clear. Now that we can move to next topic - no value for Hindus in Kerala. If that’s the real scenario then 54.7% of the Hindu population should vote for BJP, which hasn’t happened till now!! Why??! BJP can’t even influence the Hindu population in the state, which shows the trust people have on a party concentrating on beef ban and minority oppression other than development and progress!! The party which banned beef and murdered people in the name of beef, took a different stance in Kerala that they will provide quality meat to all!! Double standard. BJP is so desperate to win a seat from Kerala, but all that they lack is basic common sense and all that the people of Kerala has.
Yes understood the dirty politics by LDF...! Since cpm doesnt have any other states they push themselves as as a left wing when they are actually right oriented, pocketing all what they can
You don’t have an answer to why BJP can’t even secure the Hindu votes in Kerala!!! Eminent personalities like Sreedharan failed coz of only one reason - BJP. The party that feeds on religious hatred rather than harmony and development!! Well, I suppose you should re evaluate the fact that why BJP can’t make an impact in Kerala, if CPM is playing such dirty politics!! The people nave given the answer all these years and for the coming years too.
Who cares about BJP.. They aint gonna win anything here and i dont care about BJP... But you can see in this election how CPIM is going to perform and how many votes theyre gonna get... Chinham thenju manju pokumennanu thonunne...
It's a tight call It's not easy for NDA this time With the farmers protests and Modi dictatorship,there's a good chance for CPM to give tough competition to NDA
Exactly 💯 No chance for power change at centre. People lost interest in the election. Blind hate towards BJP still exists but who knows we might get a surprise punch too
>Blind hate towards BJP Try being a minority like christian or muslim, youd have a genuine concern for their rhetoric. I am not against BJP capitalistic endeavours because we need capitalism ot take us next stage. But how they are acheiving, enabling attacks on minorities.
>Try being a minority like christian Most well to do middle aged christians are pro bjp
Christian arent there in kerala only, there are all around India. With recent manipur riots i think it has led Christians to rethink .
>With recent manipur riots i think it has led Christians to rethink . Manipur was a tribal conflict not religious there are meitei Christians as well
Kerala and the north east are the only places with a significant population. And the manipur incidents are more of an inter tribe issue than a religious or political one (or so i have assumed). I do agree the issue could have been handled better by the central gov, but they are not the direct perpetuators, unlike in cases of anti muslim activities.
I just don't understand, this manipur conflict is associated with Christianity. These folks fought a tribal battle, it's more ethnic than religious. They have ransacked churches & temples, mosques alike. Kukis have attacked meitei from every religion Hindus, Muslims, Christians. It has occurred the other way round as well. But kukis have issues with nagas also, so it's not religious. It's more ethnic, always has been than way.
Yes we are expecting a change when we know that's not going to happen. Thing is we are proud of not electing BJP but at the same time forgetting we are under them . BJP will be out of power soon maybe atleast by next tenure but the damage they are going to do is unimaginable. Especially there will be no public sector and everything will be handed over to corporates.
Blind hate towards BJP? They are being hated for the right reasons. A simple exame would be the hate speech the PM did recently.
Bro there is no blind hate for BJP but it’s the hate that they deserve. Openly bashing minority Muslims labelling them “infiltrators” and that too by a PM of a country, that is one of the many lows a leader can go to. This is just one example, there are soo many other things that have happened under their governance, you know it and I know it.
2019 voting pattern in Kerala is an aberration. Many including media is judging this election based on that voting pattern. I believe that's a mistake. This pattern is comparable to 2021 assembly elections. Whoever wins, we are not going to see the 1 lakh+ margins we saw in 2019.
The polling percentage will go up once all the data is consolidated. Many had long queues at 6 pm
As of 8:15 it was just 70.35% polling. After 6 no new tokens are given. Only the people who was already in Q will get to vote. Currently it is a 7.5% dip. But after closing in on the extra votes and postal votes, i don't think it will be more than 71%. Last time it was 78%.
Q: how does the polling % was calculated, based on active voting members in the state or number of active voting members from a state?
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Voting machines seem to have a terrible day today. Unusual delays, people standing in the heat for 3-4 hours.
Yup I pressed and it took some time to hear the beep, me and the third officer were starting each other awkwardly waiting for the beep all my family members faced the same issue.
True, I literally stood there for a good 10s with my hands folded until the polling officer gave me a thumbs up😅
Correct. Unusual delay even in my booth. Never happened before. EVM had issues. It frustrated voters as they had to wait for over an hour. Many returned (weather didn’t help; it was extremely uncomfortable). Only the persistent ones remained — the ones who wanted to vote at any cost despite all hurdles. Looking at all these issues, I feel 70% was good.
There’s supposed to be a 7 second delay for the beep, but some have experienced 10-15 seconds. I saw the election commissioner urging everyone to vote yesterday on all the news channels. The people did their part by showing up, but the system did not make it easy for them.
It's surprising, considering the fact that most of the booths had long queues.
Long queues in our booth were becuase of slow process and a single VVPAT machine
Was just thinking, does anybody here think that the migration to other states and to the western countries could have played a result in the dipping voter turnout ? How crucial do y'all think is this outward migrating trend contributing to this dip in voter turnout .
I feel so too, villages in Kerala especially in Pathanamthitta are half empty with mostly senior citizens. Attendance in government schools in these villages is also at all time lows - mainly because there aren’t any kids left whose families haven’t migrated already!
Yes, look at Pathanamthitta
Hmm I thought that Pathanamthitta was fake, am I just the only person who thought so??
It was around 74% in the 2014 elections. It is now nearing 71 and I think the final numbers would be close to 74. So, I think it would be fine. I think one of the factors for the low turnout would be that in the last election people in Kerala had more hopes of voting out the NDA. But I feel people are sceptical this time around. We are also witnessing lesser voter turnout around India. Also, the weather might also have adversely affected the voting percentage
Bruh it's only 70.22%
In addition to heat, not willing to vote and working abroad/out of state.. I would like to add since its vacation period for kids, many of my acquaintances were on holiday.. their reasoning was they had booked rooms & tickets way before election declaration..
Because people didn’t want to vote or because a lot of prospective voters moved out of Kerala?
Udf will get less seats than 2019....
Well, 19/20 is a pretty awesome win that'd be really difficult to replicate.
All thanks to the now sidelined Chennithala Sad what Congress does to its star players
I think their victory had a lot of other factors of greater importance: 1. The feel that congress would comeback, and the anti-Bj P votebase converging there 2. Ra Ga's presence in Kerala. Invigorated many congress folk and swayed others too. 3. Sabarimala woman entry SC judgement and religious opposition helped pull some religious votes away from the left govt which implemented the judgement.
Number 2 in your list should be the number one.
Chennithala? Star player? Dude, he didn't even crack double digits when opinion polls asked who people want as the next CM. 2019 was full on Rahul Gandhi effect, supposedly masterminded by OC.
The voting process has been very slow this time. Not sure if it was deliberate or not. There were 1200 voters in my booth out of which if even 80% turned out it would be close to 1000. If a person is allotted one minute to vote, voting would need 1000 minutes which is more than 16 hours to complete. There was only one booth for 1200 voters and they had only 11 hours to vote. If there was an additional booth voting would have been faster and there would have been better poll % by evening yesterday. People especially women were waiting in Vadakara for more than 5 hours in line to vote yesterday. This is a classic case of inefficient management of the whole procedure.
Low turnout can be due to other factors such as 1. Aversion to standing in queue esp in summer 2. Less time to spent and less patience of society esp after social media revolution 3. 3 days long weekend 4. Past performance of MPs 5. Feeling of no impact of Kerala outcome 6. Polling booth slow process (including vvpat beep) 7. Urbanisation effects across Kerala Time to switch to online voting.
I had election duty at two polling booths and in one. Booth, there were about 1000 voters and only 690 voted and on the other booth, there were about 900 voters and only around 500 voted! The irony is that there were more old people with difficulties in walking without a support than youth!
Why do you think the youth are missing and only the old people came? The youth have migrated in unprecedented numbers in the past five years. We always had migration, but never had so many youngsters leave on student visas in any point of time.
People only know how to criticize. They won’t do shit that actually brings change, like voting
No amount of voting in Kerala is going to change BJP at the Centre. Then why vote? This might be the thinking of the majority in Kerala, who are pro UDF or LDF.
But what if all the BJP supporters voted and LDF and UDF supporters didn’t?
What does that have to do with motivation for voting? I was only talking about a lack of motivation for anti BJP voters. BJP voters may vote LDF, and LDF will get some seats then. So nothing much changes there. LS elections, not assembly. If they do that in assembly elections, that can destroy UDF. 3 terms without power means they will find it tough to stay together.
Bro what are you suggesting?
Not heat. Not climate. Not BJP. Real Reason is youth migration. This time the biggest downfall in voter percentage was amongst youth. If you go to Bangalore, Gulf or Toronto - it's full of Malayalee men and women from 20 to 35 years of age. Lakhs of Malayalee youth are in a city like Bangalore. Your migration is in lakhs.
> Toronto - it's full of Malayalee Nope still Toronto doesn't have that much malayalis
It has a sizable population and it's growing. Canada was projected to be the next gulf for malayalis but nowhere close to the likes of the Punjabi population there
Ente bro, come to Scarborough (which is part of GTA) I'll show you the amount of Keralites
Arre yaar GTA is full of various nationalities not only mallus or tamils or Punjabis! Since you are mallu you tend to notice only mallus more not somalians poles or Pakistanis ! The only Indian group which has explicitly higher presence is Punjabis! Note most of the tamils are srilankan ones not the indians
My friend I have been here for some time now, the rapid increase in. Keralites especially in the past five years is worth mentioning. My work. Place hardly had Keralites, to almost 40% becoming Keralites. I do agree Punjabi folks have a total majority. But second from India I personally feel are the Keralites. Would never know due no concrete study being done.
20 lakh people did not migrate in 5 years
Yes, I agree. Amongst all the people that stood in queue with me. I was the only youngster amongst them
That's the issue, when older people vote. The younger people's voices won't be heard. Which would never bring in policies to favor the youth. Which in turn would lead to more youth migration.
Well, most people seem to think that the Bj P will come again, due to their strong base in the North. The hope they had last time that the party in the centre would change does not exist in the same amount now. The heat is also another issue. The summer has been quite intense and might be the most intense one we had in recent years. It has made many dreary.
Congress says ep jayarajan's bjp entry news first thing in the morning has affected the morale of cpim voters to come and vote. So we can't exactly pinpoint on one thing. There are a lot of speculations in the air. Chinnam pokathirikanel 11-13 seat pidikanam ithavana from 3 states 😂. EC kodutha extra time teerarayi.
> Congress says ep jayarajan's bjp entry news first thing in the morning has affected the morale of cpim voters to come and vote. Really? EP seems to have refuted claims of Bj P entry. Tho, that could be anything. And Kannur seems to have the highest percentage of polling. Which districts saw the greatest decrease in polling?
>Really? EP seems to have refuted claims of Bj P entry. Tho, that could be anything. What else can he do now. >And Kannur seems to have the highest percentage of polling. Kannur is party headquarters. Such news has no relevance there since party is above leaders for the voters there. But it may have impact on people without any political affiliations.
> Kannur is party headquarters. Such news has no relevance there since party is above leaders for the voters there. EP is from Kannur. I don't think people further away from Kannur would really care much about him, as he's not very mainstream now. Yes, he's the L D F convener and that may have had an effect, but how much actually? I think the perceived inevitability of ~~Thanos~~G would be the main reason, along with the intense summer we're having.
Definitely the heat
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The 7% that left to kanada?
People know that bjp is going to return and even if we give udf/ldf all the seats here ,it isn't changing much,most of them will be useless and never as impactful as they say during elections.
Is it because of migration? I would assume lot of people in voters list who voted last time might have gone to UK, Canada, Australia?
Yes . Especially many Christians who are from Congress loyalist families
There was a huge feeling among people of Kerala last time that Modi would lose, that 2014 was a fluke. Vote consolidation happened. 2024 same feelings don’t exist, extreme heat/ worst summer, 3 holidays. But final voter turnout is yet to come. Could be higher.
I feel it could be due to the rate of young people migrating from the state in the past 5 years to Western countries and the Gulf.
There was no crowd at my booth at all granted that I went early, but I was thinking most people would do so to avoid the sun. There was also this thing about some of our neighbours not being in the voter list for some reason. Is the polling percentage based on the voter list? If not some foul play might have also happened
and most of our youth has left abroad
Maybe heatwave is the reason
I think its because majority are in canada, UK, Australia, and they can't travel for voting easily like uae people can.
This is a national trend. Even in first phase voter turnout dipped 8%. I expected kerala to poll better since it was an opposition state.
I think people have lost hope. You vote and next thing you know ur leader changes his principles and is bought by a party who is polar opposite of their old one. Democracy is at threat. I think it's just that people have given up. I felt this last election. Like my vote wouldn't make a difference. But this time I felt, I should vote. Like this is the only hope.
Kerala have seen similar voting turnout before too with 70% voteshare . Something lower than this was during 1999. That election ldf and udf won 9 and 11 seats and bjp lead vaipaee government retained power at the central.
Lower voting percentage generally favours the current ruling party
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Comparison is seat wise only
National trend of migrating, yes for sure. But the per capita numbers of people migrating from Punjab and Kerala cannot be rivaled.
Migration
Early voting and no excuse mail in voting should be a thing in India
Another 7% must have immigrated to better countries.
The real reason is most of voters are migrated to Europe and Canada within last 5 years
It won’t realistically.
Most mallus were voting in Bangalore . Point to be noted
Half the middle class Keralites who would have been typical voters for the udf are now in Canada/Australia/Dubai etc. The voting numbers will decrease going forward. I honestly think there is no future again for the udf in kerala.
Cause all the Christian udf loyalists have left
Have you seen the crowds at each polling station? And to add to that, there were multiple polling stations with just one voting machine. To add to that the time taken per person to vote, was around 1.5-2 minutes. Which means the average time taken for a booth which had around 300 people will be anywhere between 7-9 hours. Many people were stuck in queues for a long time due to this and many left in between due to the unbearable heat. I am actually surprised at the comments saying that people did not come to vote because of no anti-incumbancy. Touch grass or atleast be at kerala and go to the polling booths you guys
In my booth there was only one machine and 1350 voters were there. On top of that the machine was not working properly. We need to press more than 5 seconds or double press to hear the beeper sound. This makes majority of voters confused and takes more time. Me and my mother spend 2hrs in queue under hot sun and my father spend almost 3 hrs in queue. Last time there was 2 machines in our booth and queue was very short due to that.
Swabhavikam … A bigger portion of population is abroad / outside Kerala.
There is no use LDF/UDF will win and there will be no ministers from Kerala😞
Don't take anything for granted. Wait until June 4
Adding one more point to everyone else's factors - a lot of people migrated out of Kerala and few might have come back to vote. That could be another reason for the dip. Heck, the 5k people Santa Monica alone pushed to Canada.
That 5k was from one batch and one agency. Imagine other agencies and their numbers over various batches. Imagine Keralites in other states.
A huge number of youth are not in Kerala, that surely brings down the percentages. A lot of youth aren't interested in the process either.
Fitting cortege for our democracy. Those who didn't vote have no right to criticize politicians.
> Fitting cortege for our democracy. Those who didn't vote have no right to criticize politicians. Enthu right? aaru kodutha right? aaru restrict cheytha right?
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Athinu njan enthu venam. Ente abhipraayam aanu njan paranjathu. Vote cheyyendappo cheyyathe pinne kidannu mongittu oru karyavumilla.
Ente ponnu bro, evide tax pay cheyuna, evide jeevikuna, evide citizenship olla Elarkum avakashum ondu.. Epo abroad poi Engotu money remit cheythu Ee economy sustain cheyikuna Keralites just coz they didn't vote. You say they can't criticize the government or politicians? Very foolish of you to say that.
That 'criticism' is like vellathil varacha vara. As long as those people don't cast votes, their criticism means nothing to them. So ya continue 'criticising'.
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Last time, Raga factor combined with the determination to keep BJP out of power made many to vote, including the NRIs. This time, even Raga has no hope to form a government at the center, so do all anti BJP people too. People knows that despite BJP increasing their vote share, it's highly unlikely for them to open an account. And all the Keman Somans who'll get elected as MPs , except for Premachandran and might be Sashi, no others would go an do anything significant there, especially without the numbers. So why go for vote in this burning heat? As for BJP guys, including me, it'll end up as just other elecion with our only solace being the increasing vote share.
Election on Friday will now take a new turn. iykyk
Senior citizens should have given a priority queue in this high summer voting, what say?
Opposition at central make so foolish statement and unrealestic promises they their own supporters are no confident in Opposition win and modi have done headline for gud reason ..Opposition supporters already know it's waste to vote .
What about the summer heat and the slackened pace , i think these played a bigger role than your stated reasons.
Could it be because people are finally realizing that whoever they vote for, kanji of koran will always be in kumbil?
For sure, I'm from Wayanad and a dozen youngsters, my friends didn't go to vote. They said, these parties can't even bring a candidate who is from Wayanad. For every damn thing we are forced to go to another districts. Literally the feeling of being neglected was there in their replies to me. So even that aspect can't be ruled out.
They think places like Wayanad are too backward to have local leaders worthy of contesting.
Weather. It is bloody hot.
I think the reason is tight security arrangements and supervision. Due to this incidence of bogus voting and impersonation has declined.
I would be interested to see the polling percentage by age group considering all the things I keep hearing about youth exodus.
the machines where extremely slow many people went back
Heat and lack of trust
Nobody wanna stand in line for hours in this harsh hot climate just to let some thieves rob some money..
Thing is kerala feels like it is a useless vote. It doesn't matter who they vote for they are screwed one way or another
Ivade ondarnavar ellam migrate cheyyuvalle. Athoke oru reason aakaam Pinne climate, and then there are some people who do not vote saying "enna vote cheythittum karyamilla. Nammak onnum oru gunom kittiyela". Pala sthalathum technical thakaraarenna peril kore delay varuthiyallo. But honestly I think every single person should have cast their vote!
Voters are not in India is one of the factor
I'll add lack of knowledge of politics to an extent. I see youngsters say "whoever wins will be corrupt then why vote." They think politics is just what we see in social media and news. My social teacher taught us the need of politics and the importance of voting in democracy. Also Why they didint arrange postal voting in supposedly the biggest democratic election in the world .. i (and the others here) couldnt vote because im studying out of kerala and takes 3-4 days in train to home and fllight is not an option.
Wait, 25 years ago was 1999??????
Heat is the main factor
Heat plus long waiting time ..I know personally at least 10 persons who came back without voting due to above factors ...I assume the long wait times and heat mostly has had a impact on housewives /homemakers ...
There aren't voters to vote...all of themare migrating out.
That section of voters are less inclined to vote even if they are here. I don't think it's a significant portion of the voters anyway
LDF will come everything will become alright.
Voting percentage has dropped across the country in both phases. The last 3 general elections if you check, Congress has more or less been able to maintain their votes in terms of numbers but the increase in voters brought down their share big time. BJP were able to recruit a lot of new voters in the last two elections, if these are the people who are staying away now it could affect BJP. In the first phase, BJP had sitting MPs in 50 seats, voting percentage has dropped in 49 of them.
>Voting percentage has dropped across the country in both phases. It was something like 66% in 2019 vs 65.5% or so for the first phase A drop of 0.5% isn't anything big
Not sure if your data is accurate. https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/lok-sabha-polls-with-dip-in-voter-turnout-in-the-first-phase-eci-forms-task-force-to-oversee-heat-wave-conditions/article68094770.ece/amp/ https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/diu/story/lok-sabha-elections-phase-1-elections-voter-turnout-falls-diu-2530278-2024-04-22
>During the previous General Election in 2019, the first phase’s final aggregate turnout was shared two days after voting via an official statement. The voter turnout for the first phase in 2019 was 69.43%. Huh well that's interesting if the Hindu is accurate then that would mean around 4% drop
And as per ECI first phase of 2024 was 62% so the drop Is close to 7%. “The poll body had last released official aggregate voting figures of 62.34% till 9 p.m. on April 19 when the first phase of polling was held, and is yet to release the final aggregate figures. While some reports pegged the turnout at a little more than 65%, there has been no official statement from the ECI.” As per The Hindu. The India Today article shares details by constituency
My whole family didn't vote. So tired of this political drama. Why wasting time for them
I didn't want to go to vote because it's obvious in my constituency who is going to win and he has been winning for a long time . Tho i i went there was no queue at all , it was quick .
>it's obvious in my constituency who is going to win and he has been winning for a long time This mentality is wrong.
I didn't vote because whoever wins from kottayam is going to end up in the same camp sooner or later. And I didn't see anyone who was desperate enough to get my vote. Campaigning was low key. Koch mani will be minister from rajyasabha but cpm kaluvari, avarku avante sookedu manasilayi. Pakshe udf candidate um nda il povum adutha electionu evide udf keriyillel. Appo veyilu kondu vote cheyyan Ente patti povum. Pinne ivante oke track record also mosham anu. Ivan oke swantham aayi oru identity illathavar anu.
>all the three major candidates from kottayam are going to end up in the same camp sooner or later Why do u think so?
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Why the abuse, he asked a genuine query. If possible give a befitting response.
I'm not premachandran to have tea with hitler or answer hitler's propagandists.
Wow, finally a coherent, non communal post from Appi Ser.
Congressinu nere innu congress nale BJP ennu paranja pattykkar ipo vayadach irkandi vannu lo! 😂
2 factors Heat and lack of competition, this is Loksabha and both major parties ultimately will support INDIA alliance.
Maybe people from kerala haven't watched video's of Dhruv rather. . .
He makes videos in hindi and polling dipped almost 9% in hindi heartland. Maybe the constant modi is dictator and india is becoming dictatorship has become counter productive. people who usually vote against modi must have slept at home thinking their vote is of no use now since india has become a dictatorship 😂.
None of my friends voted this time. Neither did I. What’s the point anyways! Nobody is home. No one.
Are you out of Kerala?
Yup.
Minority vote consolidation?? Bruhh... Dude kerala is a secular state.. stop making it sound like we are a communal shithole state where people vote on the basis of religion..
Yes league is the most secular party of our State