The Election Commission on Saturday released the final voting figures for the 93 seats at 65.68%, which is a 1.32 percentage point decrease from the turnout in the same seats in the last Lok Sabha polls.
According to the EC data, the turnout increased in 40 seats, while the remaining 53 (or 57%) saw a decline in the voter participation. The turnout of male voters was almost 2.5 percentage points higher than female voters at 66.89% and 64.41% respectively.
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In the forefront of the attack on Prime Minister Modi was NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar who said that if the British could be thrown out of this country by adopting Gandhian ideology, it would not be difficult to do the same to Modi.
Top leaders of their respective parties like Priyanka Gandhi, Raj Thackeray, Nitin Gadkari, Sharad Pawar, Eknath Shinde, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, among others, held rallies in different constituencies.