Election Commission officials have rejected reports alleging a discrepancy between votes polled and votes counted in the Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency during the 2024 general elections. Officials said the reports had confused the total number of registered electors with the number of people who actually cast their votes.
According to the Election Commission’s index card, Mumbai North had 18,12,115 registered electors, including 9,69,143 men, 8,42,559 women and 413 third-gender electors. Of these, 10,33,267 voters exercised their franchise, registering a turnout of 60.44 per cent. The votes polled included 5,60,391 men, 4,72,815 women and 61 third-gender voters.
Officials maintained that the index card available on the Election Commission’s website is the official record of electors and voting figures. They said the figure of 18.12 lakh represented the constituency’s registered electorate, not the number of votes cast.
The clarification follows an investigation that flagged apparent differences in election records across several constituencies in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. Maharashtra’s Chief Electoral Officer also disputed the interpretation of the Mumbai North figures, stating that the actual voting data matched the EVM count.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal won the Mumbai North constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
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