Highest Voter Turnout Lok Sabha Constituencies

1984 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by turnout

In the 1984 Lok Sabha election, the highest voter turnout was recorded in Barpeta (Assam) at 89.04% — 651,157 votes polled out of 731,285 electors. The full ranked list of the top 25 constituencies is below — click any constituency to see its complete candidate-wise result.

Percentage of registered electors who cast a vote.

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Rank Constituency State Winner Party Turnout
1 Barpeta Assam Ataur Rahman Independent 89.04%
2 Kokrajhar ST Assam Samar Brahma Choudhury Plains Tribals Council Of Assam 87.77%
3 Lakshadweep ST Mohammad Sayeed Padannatha Indian National Congress 86.98%
4 Dhubri Assam Abdul Hamid Independent 86.77%
5 Inner Manipur Manipur N.Tombi Singh Indian National Congress 85.94%
6 Arambagh West Bengal Anil Basu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 85.75%
7 Panskura West Bengal Geeta Mukherjee Communist Party Of India 85.70%
8 Outer Manipur ST Manipur Meijinlung Indian National Congress 85.57%
9 Cooch Behar SC West Bengal Amar Roy Prodhan All India Forward Bloc 85.05%
10 Murshidabad West Bengal Syed Musudal Hossain Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 84.86%
11 Alappuzha Kerala Vakkon Purushothaman Indian National Congress 84.02%
12 Barasat West Bengal Tarun Kanti Ghosh Indian National Congress 83.83%
13 Krishnanagar West Bengal Renu Pada Das Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.74%
14 Hooghly West Bengal Indumati Bhattacharyya Indian National Congress 83.50%
15 Malda West Bengal Abu Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 83.35%
16 Tamluk West Bengal Mishra Satyagopal Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.12%
17 Burdwan West Bengal Sudhir Ray Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.01%
18 Katwa West Bengal Saifuddin Chowdhury Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.75%
19 Mangaldoi Assam Saifuddin Akmed Independent 82.63%
20 Gauhati Assam Dinesh Goswami Independent 82.36%
21 Nagapattinam SC Tamil Nadu Mahalingam M. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 82.27%
22 Kannur Kerala Muliappalli Ramachandran Indian National Congress 81.94%
23 Basirhat West Bengal Indrajit Gupta Communist Party Of India 81.88%
24 Mathurapur SC West Bengal Manoranjan Halder Indian National Congress 81.67%
25 Nowgong Assam Muhiram Saikia Independent 81.51%

Why this list matters

The highest-turnout constituencies tend to be in states with a strong tradition of civic participation — often rural, often in the Northeast, Kerala, West Bengal, or hill states — where parties have well-organised booth-level workers and voters treat polling day as a community event. High turnout doesn't favour any one party uniformly; it tends to amplify whichever side has the better organisation on the ground.

Turnout figures are computed from the official electoral roll size and votes-polled count.

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