Highest-ever women voter turnout in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry

NEW DELHI: Women aced elector turnout successful Assam, Kerala and Puducherry connected Thursday, not lone signaling their highest-ever polling percent but besides surpassing the antheral elector turnout successful the 2 states and the Union territory.

A whopping 91.4% of the pistillate electorate successful Puducherry, 86.5% successful Assam and 81.2% successful Kerala voted. In comparison, the antheral elector turnout was 88.1% successful Puducherry, 85.3% successful Assam and 75.1% successful Kerala. The sex turnout spread was the widest successful Kerala, astatine astir 6 percent points, arsenic against 3.2 percent points successful Puducherry and conscionable 1.1 percent points successful Assam. The enthusiastic information by women electors pushed up the wide polling percent crossed the 3 states/UT. Most governmental parties person been targeting women electors successful their manifesto promises. In Kerala, LDF has promised to rise women's information successful the workforce to 50%, portion UDF has offered women escaped question successful authorities buses.