Almost 1.8 lakh voters vote for NOTA in Assam

May 26: In the recently concluded Lok Sabha Election, 2019, a significant statistics has come to the forefront. 1,78,353 voters exercised the “None of The Above” option in the Assam Lok Sabha polls, which is 31,296 more than the NOTA figure in the last elections. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, a total of 1,47,057 electorate, accounting for less than one per cent of the total votes polled, exercised NOTA.

In a report filed by NDTV, the NOTA percentage accounted for 0.99 per cent of the total 1,79,86,066 electorate, with Dibrugarh accounting for the highest and Karimganj (SC) the least votes under this category, according to the Election Commission. Dibrugarh recorded the highest of 21,288 NOTA, followed by Mangaldoi with 18,518, Kokrajhar with 15,988, Kaliabor with 15,913, Tezpur 15,626, Lakhimpur 15,220, Jorhat 12,569, Nowgong 10,757 and Gauahati with 10,466.

Silchar recorded a total of 8547 votes for NOTA (0.9%), whereas in Karimganj it was 6555 votes (0.62%). The figures include the postal ballots, too, where Kokrajhar recorded the highest with 121, Silchar 22 and the lowest 07 in Karimganj.