Bengaluru : As utmost of the 14 constituencies in Karnataka bettered their turnout percentage compared to the 2019 general election, three constituencies in Bengaluru’s civic seemed to be sliding backwards, with the data indicating a lower turnout. Bangalore Rural, still performed more.
As per tentative data provided by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Bangalore North saw a turn out of 54.42, a little lower (0.34) than the 54.76 in 2019. Bangalore Central slid by 1.51 to 53.81while Bangalore South registered 53.15 turnout.
In Bangalore Rural, as numerous as 67.29 of the 28 lakh voters exercised their franchise, an enhancement of 2.31 over the 2019 figures. Still, a near look at the data showed that the two civic Assembly parts of Rajarajeshwari nagar and Bangalore South performed inadequately, with about 55 polling.
While Anekal saw about 60 polling, all the remaining segments recorded over 80. As per the final electoral roll, Bangalore North had 32.14 lakh voters, followed by Bangalore Central(24.33 lakh) and Bangalore South(2341 lakh). Fresh polling booths were set up to reduce waiting time for the voters also, officers who had studied the voting patterns in the former election had organized special voter awareness campaigns for the constituencies in Bengaluru in an trouble to ameliorate the participation.
still, it showed no significant impact on the polling day Gangadhar appa, a (61year) old voter in Okalipuarm, added up the voter apathy as he said there was no reason for him to cast vote.
"All they want to do is ameliorate themselves. They were not given me anything and I do not owe them anything," he said, To a question, an official said the figures for all the 14 constituencies may ameliorate further in the final tally. "For Bengaluru, the figures may not bring big changes.
Still, it should be noted that the three constituencies also have high number of voters," he added.
