Voter turnout in the Lok Sabha election has been on a declining trend in recent general elections in the central region notwithstanding the intense awareness campaign by the Election Commission to attract more voters to the polling booth in the run-up to the elections.
All the six Lok Sabha constituencies in the region — Tiruchi, Karur, Perambalur, Thanjavur, Mayiladuthurai and Nagapattinam — have shown a gradual decrease in voter turnout in the last three general elections since 2014.
Official figures released here on Saturday showed that 67.52% of the voters in the Tiruchi Lok Sabha constituency exercised their franchise on Friday. Of the 15,53,985 voters in the constituency, 10,49,210 cast their vote. While the polling percentage among men was 67.66, it was 67.39 among women and 42.68 among Others.
