EVMs in Mizo LS Polls reached respective districts

All the EVMs/VVPATs used by 1,276 polling parties to conduct polling for election to the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha constituencies have reached respective district headquarters and have been kept at strong rooms in the district headquarters, a senior state election department official said on Saturday. Additional Chief Electoral Officer H. Lianzela said that the election materials will be kept under strict security arrangement till the counting of votes on June 4. Lianzela said that the voters’ turnout in Friday’s polling was 56.87 per cent while the number of votes polled through postal ballots and Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (EPBS) are yet to be added in the poll turnout.

He said that a total 4,87,103 electorates (2,41,213 male voters and 2,45,800 female voters) exercised their franchise in the election to the Mizoram Lok Sabha seat in 1,276 polling stations. The highest voter turnout is in southernmost Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh border Mamit district, having 3 assembly segments, which was 63.57 per cent and Aizawl district is the lowest at 53.29 per cent. The highest poll percentage among the assembly constituencies is Tuichawng assembly segment in Lawngtlai district where 72.48 per cent of votes while Aizawl East-2 assembly segment in Aizawl district polled barely 48.22 per cent.

In the Lok Sabha elections held so far in Mizoram seat since 1971, the highest ever votes polled was in 1996 was when 73.41 per cent of votes was polled. This year’s voter’s turnout was the fourth lowest with 49.92 per cent, 51.86 per cent and 56.12 per cent polled in the years 1977, 1980 and 2009 respectively. The oldest voter who casted vote on Friday was Thanglianhluma (104) in Lawngtlai town and the second oldest was 103-year-old lady Hrangkili a resident of Ramhlun North neighbourhood in Aizawl. EOM