According to the official data, 60.15 percent of women voters came out to vote as compared to 60.82 percent of men. The overall voting percentage dropped to 60.52 from 2014.
Lok
Sabha Election 2019 : East Delhi, New Delhi and South Delhi
parliamentary constituencies saw more women turning out to vote as
compared to men, officials said Thursday.
Delhi
recorded a turnout of 60.52 percent in the polls on May 12, five
percentage points down from 2014.
According
to official data, 60.82 per cent male voters and 60.15 per cent
female
voters exercised their right this time.
The
East Delhi constituency, which is seeing a triangular contest between
BJP's Gautam Gambhir, Congress's Arvinder Singh Lovely and AAP's
Atishi Marlena, saw 61.80 per cent women exercising their right to
vote as compared to 61.50 per cent of male voters.
The
New Delhi constituency, which has many VVIP voters, recorded the
lowest voter turnout among all seven constituencies in Delhi at 56.86
per cent, but saw a better turnout of women than men. According to
the data, 57.21 per cent of women voters cast their votes while 56.58
per cent men exercised their franchise in the seat.
South
Delhi, which had the second lowest turnout of voters, saw 58.89 per
cent of women voters as compared to 58.60 per cent of male voters.
The
Northeast Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, where former Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari and AAP'S Dilip Pandey
are contesting, recorded the highest voter turnout at 63.67 per cent.
While
64.46 per cent of men cast their votes, 62.72 per cent women turned
out to vote.
In
a first for the city, as many as 17 booths with all women polling
officials were established for the Lok Sabha elections in the seven
constituencies of Delhi.
Out
of the 17 booths, 10 had been set up in East Delhi constituency, two
in Chandni Chowk and one each in North East Delhi, West Delhi, South
Delhi, New Delhi and North west Delhi.Business Standard
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