{"id":11970,"date":"2026-05-03T02:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/election-commission-releases-final-data-4-88-crore-people-voted-in-tamil-nadu-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:18:14","slug":"election-commission-releases-final-data-4-88-crore-people-voted-in-tamil-nadu-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/election-commission-releases-final-data-4-88-crore-people-voted-in-tamil-nadu-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission releases final data: 4.88 crore people voted in Tamil Nadu | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130724124,imgsize-959983,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-13.jpg\" alt=\"Election Commission releases final data: 4.88 crore people voted in Tamil Nadu\" title=\"&lt;p&gt;File photo&lt;\/p&gt;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CHENNAI: After a nine-day wait and just 48 hours before counting, EC released the absolute voter turnout for the April 23 election in Tamil Nadu, confirming that 4,87,98,833 voters (4.88 crore) participated in the exercise to elect members for the state assembly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>This accounts for 85.1% of the 5.73 crore registered voters across the state\u2019s 234 constituencies \u2014 the highest turnout in the state\u2019s electoral history. While this appears to be a sharp rise from the 73.6% (4.63 crore votes) recorded in the 2021 polls, in absolute terms, the increase was modest: only 24.42 lakh more voters turned up, accounting for a 4.3% rise over the number of voters in the previous assembly elections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The high turnout percentage was largely due to SIR, which removed 57 lakh names, bringing down the electorate from 6.29 crore to 5.73 crore.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>According to the data released Saturday, over 2.52 crore women cast their votes, compared to over 2.35 crore men. Women outvoted men by nearly 17.25 lakh, representing a 2.1% higher turnout than their male counterparts. This trend has continued since the 2011 assembly elections. Of the 7,728 registered third-gender voters, 4,517 cast their ballots. At 77, the Sulur constituency recorded the highest number of transgender voters.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>EC faced criticism from DMK and AIADMK for not sharing the data sooner.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>TN electoral officer Archana Patnaik said EC had made elaborate arrangements across 62 counting centres, where the counting of votes from all 75,064 polling stations and received postal ballots will be done on May 4.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Authorities have arranged 234 counting halls, in addition to 240 halls for counting of postal ballots and electronically transmitted postal ballots at the same venue. Total 10,545 counting personnel will be engaged, supported by 4,624 micro-observers to ensure transparency and integrity.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>A comprehensive three-tier security arrangement would be in place at all counting centres, Patnaik said. A total of 65 CAPF companies, alongside state and local police, will be deployed.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/election-commission-releases-final-data-4-88-crore-people-voted-in-tamil-nadu\/articleshow\/130724115.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: After a nine-day wait and just 48 hours before counting, EC released the absolute voter turnout for the April 23 election in Tamil Nadu, confirming that 4,87,98,833 voters (4.88 crore) participated in the exercise to elect members for the state assembly.This accounts for 85.1% of the 5.73 crore registered voters across the state\u2019s 234 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}