Tamil Nadu records 73.85% voter turnout

| Meera Vankipuram | TNN | May 16, 2016, 22:04 IST

Tamil Nadu recorded 69.19% voter turnout till 5pm on Monday. Penn... Read More

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu recorded 73.85% voter turnout on Monday. Pennagaram in Dharmapuri district and Edappadi in Salem district registered the highest percentage of polling in the state (85% each).

Chennai district, which has 16 constituencies, recorded 60.47% polling. Two Chennai constituencies -- Chennai Harbour (53%) and Villivakkam (50%) -- were among the lowest in the state.

At a press briefing chief electoral officer Rajesh Lakhoni said, "Chennai registered a low voter turnout. Poll percentage in the city increased by just 6% after 3pm."

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Solayappa Lakshmanan

3125 days ago

Naturally people are loosing faith in the way these elections are held. EC declares 144 to enable ruling party to do wrong practices. Now ordinary rubberstamp ink is stated to have been used in one constituency and EC turns its eye the otherway. Though there is no violence in a big way, EC,Police and state officials are all ( most of them) siding the ruling establishments. How people will come forward ? This is not good in the long run for Democracy.

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