Bihar polls: Women voters outshine men; state sees record turnout of 66.9%

NEW DELHI: Women voters took the pb successful what the Election Commission of India (ECI) described arsenic Bihar’s highest-ever elector turnout, with 71.6 per cent of pistillate electors casting their ballots compared to astir 62.8 per cent of men. According to ECI information released connected Tuesday aft the decision of the 2nd and last signifier of polling, women consistently outnumbered men astatine the booths. In the archetypal signifier connected November 6, 69.04 per cent of women turned retired to vote, good supra the 61.56 per cent antheral turnout. The inclination strengthened successful the 2nd phase, erstwhile 74.03 per cent of women voters exercised their franchise, again surpassing the 64.1 per cent turnout among men. Overall, Bihar recorded a 66.91 per cent elector turnout — the highest since the state’s archetypal elections successful 1951 — with women driving the surge successful participation.The ECI clarified that the information is provisional and excludes work voters, postal ballots, and transgender elector turnout. The last figures volition beryllium released aboriginal done the ECI Index Card, it said. The archetypal signifier of polling covered 121 assembly constituencies, portion the remaining 122 seats voted successful the second. Counting of votes for each 243 constituencies is scheduled for Friday. Meanwhile, exit polls person projected a beardown showing for the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) against the absorption Mahagathbandhan conjugation — though the exit polls are not ever accurate.(With PTI inputs)