Turnout  

The election to the Vellore Lok Sabha constituency began at 7:45 am today (August 5) with the city recording 72% voter turnout by the end of polling. Counting of votes will be held on August 9.

The district of Wayanad in Kerala recorded one of the highest voter turnout - 67.35%. Presently, Rahul Gandhi is leading in Wayanad. 
 

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Maheish Girri of the BJP defeated Rajmohan Gandhi of the AAP by a margin of 1,90,463 or 13.9 per cent votes. The constituency witnessed a voter turnout of 67.8 per cent

Wayanad leaders claimed that after 20 years, this is the first time where a vast voter turnout has been witnessed. Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi, NDA candidate Thushar Vellappally and CPI candidate PP Suneer are the key candidates from Wayanad, Kerala. 
 

According to sources, 85% of votes have been polled in Kerala. Police said there were no reports of any major untoward incident in the areas where the repolls were held. 
 

A 60-year-old man exercised his franchise one last time before breathing his last on May 19. The man walked out of the booth and immediately collapsed. The voter turnout for the by-polls in the four constituencies, in Tamil Nadu, stands at 46% as of May 19, 1PM.

Since the morning, with every passing hour, Delhi registered the lowest turnout, even worse than Bihar and almost half of West Bengal

The seven constituencies in Delhi are voting alongside 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, eights each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, and four in Jharkhand

As numbers till Phase 5 show big jump even from the historic 2014 turnout, new voters and strong pro-incumbency are likely to be decisive

In 2014, Uttar Pradesh's total voter turnout was 58%. To increase the voter turnout, students from Lucknow took an initiative to offer free cold drinks and click selfies with the voters who cast their vote

Repolling is being conducted in booth number 83 in Kerala’s Kalamassery Assembly constituency of the Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat, after it was found that the presiding officer forgot to clear the mock votes from the machine before actual voting commenced

On Monday, a total of Seventy-two Lok Sabha seats across these nine states went to vote. More than 12 crore voters were eligible to exercise their rights to seal the fate of 961 candidates in this phase, according to the Election Commission.

It would be facile to say all cities register poor attendance during the polls while villagers enthusiastically participate in this essential exercise of democracy. Not all cities do that. Only a few do. And they have done it consistently for many years now.
 

In separate incidents, nine people died near polling booths while waiting for their turn to cast their vote in Kerala for the Lok Sabha election. The state has registered a voter turnout of 77.68%, according to the figures released by the Election Commission.

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan misbehaved with the media while he was asked for a response about the voter turnout