Tamil Nadu Assembly polls: Voter turnout increase in the State followed spatial patterns

The all-time precocious turnout successful Tamil Nadu – 85.1%, according to provisional figures from the Election Commission of India – was shown to beryllium a effect of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout successful the State that had led to the nett deletion of 68 lakh electors.

While the State besides registered an summation successful the implicit fig of voters who turned out, the provisional summation of astir 24.8 lakh voters appears little than the gains registered successful caller cycles — 31.1 lakh betwixt 2016 and 2021, and 64.8 lakh betwixt 2011 and 2016. At the aforesaid time, erstwhile we interruption down the State-wide aggregate summation this election, chiseled constituency-level variations that chopped crossed urban/rural segments and regions are observed.