2024 Elections: 81,000 Vote Mismatch in States Voting for LS & VS Together
Analysis shows mismatch of 81,915 votes polled in simultaneous 2024 Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections.
By: HIMANSHI DAHIYA
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In India, simultaneous elections for the Parliament and State General Assembly are conducted in states such as Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh.
In a simultaneous election, a voter goes to a polling booth and votes in two different elections through two different EVM units.
Is it possible, then, that a voter walks into a booth and exercises their right to vote in only one of the two elections?
This is exactly what happened in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Sikkim — states which voted simultaneously for the 2024 Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls — where a mismatch of 81,916 votes has been found between votes polled in Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections.
This means that 81,916 people in constituencies across these states voted in only one of the two elections despite both being held simultaneously at the same polling booths.
Of these 63,389 were EVM votes, while 18,527 votes were polled using postal ballots.
These findings are based on an analysis by The Quint of the detailed results published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on 24 December 2024.
(Note: We did not consider Arunachal Pradesh for this analysis due to unopposed election in 10 Assembly segments.)
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