Uttarakhand: Who will benefit from low voting, who will suffer loss?
The first phase of the political summer was completed on Friday. In this phase, there was fighting on all the five seats of Uttarakhand. For about one and a half months, the leaders of political parties increased their reach to the voters. However, the voters were seen hedging their feet while reaching the booths. The result was that this time there was the lowest turnout in the last three elections. Now discussions about profit and loss have started regarding this. Everyone is busy doing the math by presenting their respective claims.
Now only the results coming after 45 days will decide the meaning of this low turnout. It remains to be seen whether the meaning of low turnout will remain the same for decades or the hesitant steps of the voters will write a different story. To increase voting, BJP created a network of booth committees and Panna Pramukhs at 11,729 booths.
Lowest turnout in Rishikesh and Roorkee seats
From the common party workers to the Chief Minister, they launched the campaign of ‘Main Bhi Hoon Panna Pramukh’. A separate strategy was also made for the 23 lost seats in 2022, but the vote percentage could not increase. Amar Ujala analyzed the voting percentage in Lok Sabha seats, which showed that the maximum voting took place in the seats where Congress MLAs are in Haridwar. Rishikesh and Roorkee seats, which have BJP MLAs, saw the lowest turnout.
Lowest turnout in Devprayag
Highest turnout was recorded in Champawat seat in Almora and lowest in Salt. On Tehri Garhwal seat, Vikasnagar had the highest turnout and Pratapnagar had the least, on Nainital-USnagar seat, Sitarganj had the highest and Bhimtal had the least, Ramnagar in Garhwal had the highest turnout and Devprayag had the least. Who will benefit from this low and high voting and who will suffer loss will be known after the counting of votes on June 4.
Haridwar Lok Sabha seat
2024 (59.12) 2019 (68.12)
The top most
| Vis Seat Percentage | Seat Percentage | MLA | Percentage |
| Haridwar Rural | 73.21 | Nupama Rawat (Congress) | 77.82 |
| Bhagwanpur | 67.13 | Rakesh (Congress) | 77.05 |
| Jwalapur | 64.30 | E Ravi Bahadur (Congress) | 77.11 |
The laggard
| Vis Seat Percentage | Seat Percentage | MLA | Percentage |
| Rishikesh | 51.30 | Premchand Aggarwal (BJP) | 61.12 |
| Roorkee | 51.30 | Pradeep Batra (BJP) | 62.57 |
| Dharampur | 51.80 | Vinod Chamoli (BJP) | 55.31 |
Almora-Pithoragarh
2024 (45.41 percent) 2019 (51.82)
Most top 2024
| Vis Seat Percentage | Seat Percentage | MLA | Percentage |
| Champawat | 55.10 | Pushkar Singh Dhami (BJP) | 61.08 |
| Pithoragarh | 50.08 | Mayukh Mehar (Congress) | 53.17 |
| DDHaat | 49.2 | Bishan Singh Chufal (BJP) | 51.60 |
The laggard
| Vis Seat Percentage | Seat Percentage | MLA | Percentage |
| Salt | 31.10 | Mahesh Jeena (BJP) | 38.75 |
| Ranikhet | 40.00 | Dr. Pramod Nainwal (BJP) | 46.25 |
| Dwarahat | 42.10 | Madan Singh Bisht (Congress) | 46.61 |
Tehri Lok Sabha constituency
2024(51.74) 2019(58.30)
The top most
| Vis Seat Percentage | Seat Percentage | MLA | Percentage |
| Vikasnagar | 64.70 | Munna Singh Chauhan (BJP) | 69.68 |
| Sahaspur | 62.12 | Sahadev Singh Pundir (BJP) | 70.41 |
| Purola | 53.70 | Durgeshwar Lal (BJP) | 64.41 |
The laggard
| Vis Seat Percentage | Seat Percentage | MLA | Percentage |
| Pratapnagar | 37.41 | Vikram Singh Negi (Congress) | 44.19 |
| Ghansali | 39.50 | Shakti Lal Shah (BJP) | 45.48 |
| Tehri | 44.16 | Kishore Upadhyay (BJP) | 47.21 |
