No To NOTA? Fewest Voters Picked Possibility In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Since Its Inception In 2014, ECI Information Reveals – News18
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The ballot physique issued a booklet, Common Elections 2024—An Atlas, on Wednesday, showcasing key election insights and analyses
As per the information, the whole variety of NOTA votes polled within the Lok Sabha elections of 2024 was 63,718,39—virtually 0.99 per cent of the whole votes polled. Representational picture
The choice of NOTA—None Of The Above—that enables voters to reject all of the candidates in an election has been utilized in three Lok Sabha polls ranging from 2014. The 2024 polls noticed the bottom voter share for the choice since 2014, information issued by the Election Fee of India on Wednesday exhibits.
The ballot physique issued a booklet, Common Elections 2024—An Atlas, on Wednesday, showcasing key election insights and analyses.
As per the information, the whole variety of NOTA votes polled within the Lok Sabha elections of 2024 was 63,718,39—virtually 0.99 per cent of the whole votes polled. In 2019, the vote share of NOTA was 1.06 per cent, and the whole votes polled for NOTA stood at 65,22,772. Earlier than that, in 2014, NOTA acquired 60,02,942 votes—1.08 per cent.
NOTA was launched in October 2013 after a Supreme Courtroom order from September of that yr. The primary goal of the NOTA choice was to allow electors to train their proper to not vote for any candidate with out violating the secrecy of their resolution.
Indore in Madhya Pradesh was the one seat with multiple lakh NOTA votes. The Lok Sabha seat acquired 2.18 lakh NOTA votes—14 per cent of the whole votes polled in Indore—after the Congress inspired the general public to go for NOTA after its candidate withdrew and joined the BJP.
The seat with the second highest NOTA votes at 50,470 was Araku from Andhra Pradesh. Additionally it is the seat with the second-highest NOTA vote share at 4.33 per cent. Nabarangpur in Odisha noticed 43,268 NOTA votes (3.46 per cent) making it the third-largest seat when it comes to NOTA votes.
Nevertheless, Bihar’s Gopalganj was the third when it comes to NOTA vote share, as greater than 4 per cent of the whole votes polled within the seat went to NOTA (42,863 votes).
Additionally it is essential to notice that solely 5 seats noticed greater than 40,000 votes polled for NOTA. Koderma from Jharkhand noticed 42,152 votes polled for NOTA.
The bottom variety of NOTA votes was noticed within the Lakshadweep Lok Sabha seat—133 votes.
The info shared by the ballot physique exhibits that in solely 38 seats, the NOTA vote share is above two per cent. Additionally it is fascinating to notice that out of those 38 seats, 21 are from Bihar alone.
In 221 constituencies, the NOTA vote share ranged between 0.5 per cent and 1.0 per cent. Within the remaining 119 seats, NOTA’s vote share was beneath 0.5 per cent of the whole votes.
“The distribution of NOTA votes throughout states in India displays vital variation, reflecting regional political dynamics, voter preferences, and ranges of political engagement. Bihar has the very best share (%) of NOTA votes, standing at 2.07%, adopted intently by Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu with 2.06% and Gujarat at 1.58%. These states have witnessed a notable share of voters choosing NOTA, indicating a sure stage of dissatisfaction or disillusionment with the out there candidates,” the ECI stated.
In distinction, Nagaland recorded the bottom share of NOTA votes at simply 0.21 per cent, suggesting a stronger alignment or desire for the contesting candidates within the state.
“Such various tendencies throughout states could also be influenced by components equivalent to political competitors, the prominence of regional events, voter schooling, and the general electoral panorama inside every area. This variation highlights the varied methods during which voters interact with the electoral course of and specific their preferences, both by actively taking part in selecting a candidate or through the use of NOTA as a device for protest or dissent,” the ballot physique added.
