Voting in the 2 states began at 7 am Wednesday for 288 seats of Maharashtra assembly elections & 2nd phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections, covering the state's remaining 38 seats.
Adjourning plea by ADR seeking directions to EC to publish turnout data, SC Friday agreed with commission's contention that judicial intervention was barred under Article 329(b).
However, the total number of voters went up by 2 cr. 7 seats saw a double-digit percentage point drop in turnout. ThePrint analyses data from 374 seats that have seen polling.
The Indian press and public have largely sustained the notion that an increase in voter turnout signals anti-incumbent sentiment- especially in the run up to the May 2014 general election- but empirical investigations tell a different story.
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