Bengaluru did it again: Nearly half of the voters give Lok Sabha polls a missBengaluru's voting apathy persists in 2024. Despite Election Commission efforts, Silicon Valley had low turnout. Urban areas like Bangalore...
27 Apr, 2024, 12.13 PM IST
Free dosas, rides & discounts rain on voters as companies & retailers step in to drive turnoutHotels, cafes, fine dining restaurants, bars, bakeries, and electronics stores in Bengaluru, India, have offered discounts to encourage vot...
27 Apr, 2024, 10.45 AM IST
LS polls phase 2: Over 50 per cent turnout till 3 pmPolling for the second stage of the seven-phase elections started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. Several states are experiencing inte...
26 Apr, 2024, 05.55 PM IST
Sumalatha Ambareesh, an Independent, takes on chief minister’s son Nikhil in MandyaThe contest in Karnataka is primarily between the BJP and the Congress-JD(S) alliance, barring Mandya and Bengaluru Central.
18 Apr, 2019, 10.59 AM IST
Voter turnout in Bengaluru may have a surprise in storeThe polling day in Bengaluru falls between festivals and a weekend, but chances are that Bengalureans may ditch a vacation and instead exer...
16 Apr, 2019, 11.10 AM IST
Dhubri sees over 88% turnout, Srinagar a shade less than 26%69 constituencies saw turnout in excess of 80% while 165 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats saw a higher percentage of women electors exercising th...
21 May, 2014, 01.42 PM IST
Lok Sabha 2014: Election Commission’s errors of omission were a killjoyReports have shown how deletions made without due verification deny voters their statutory right, as was the case with director Amol Paleka...
15 May, 2014, 11.40 AM IST
Kolkata pips other metros in voter turnoutEC recorded 66.05 per cent polling despite 41.4-degree Celsius and bombs that rocked many areas, making it the highest voting in a decade.
13 May, 2014, 04.47 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: High turnouts versus criminal candidatesOur results are based on the study of electoral performance of more than 12,000 candidates who fought the recently-held assembly elections.
30 Apr, 2014, 06.04 AM IST
Lok Sabha elections: Voting in metropolitan cities sees major improvement over last pollsChennai, which voted on Thursday, registered 61.08% polling, marginally lower than the 62.87% turnout seen in the last Lok Sabha polls.
25 Apr, 2014, 02.48 PM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Sewaks fan out in UP as a smug BJP worries RSS; to embark on intense door-to-door campaignRSS is worried that complacency might set in because of opinion polls predicting a thumping victory for the main Opposition party.
24 Apr, 2014, 02.34 AM IST
Lok Sabha Polls 2014: Mixed voter turnout in Bangalore's multi-cornered fightThe endeavour of prominent Bangaloreans yields mixed results – turnouts in the IT capital were lower than in rest of K'taka but higher than...
20 Apr, 2014, 04.41 AM IST
Violence curbed Bangladesh poll turnout, says Sheikh Hasina’s sonWazed, popularly known as Joy, has a strong India connection by virtue of his stint in Bangalore University as an engineering student.
07 Jan, 2014, 05.25 AM IST
Poke Me: Does high voter turnout produce better politicians? No!More people voting will not lead to better politics. With political parties strongly mimicking one another, bad political practice can alwa...
16 May, 2013, 05.11 PM IST
Karnataka records 2nd highest voter turnout in 35 yearsKarnataka recorded the second highest voter turnout in 35 years with a polling percentage of 71.29 in the May five Assembly polls.
06 May, 2013, 09.28 PM IST
Bangalore disappoints again, overall voter turnout at 70%Bangalore stayed true to form as close to half the voters in India’s information technology capital stayed away from polling booths during ...
06 May, 2013, 04.29 AM IST
Searing heat slowing down voter turnout in KarnatakaChief Minister Jagadish Shettar and 106-year-old seer of the Tumkur-based famed Siddaganga Mutt, Shivakumar Swamy, were among the early vot...
05 May, 2013, 03.03 PM IST