Highest Voter Turnout Lok Sabha Constituencies

1989 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by turnout

In the 1989 Lok Sabha election, the highest voter turnout was recorded in Cooch Behar (West Bengal) at 86.38% — 834,207 votes polled out of 965,700 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 Cooch Behar SC West Bengal Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 86.38%
2 Ladakh Mohd. Hassan Independent 86.36%
3 Basirhat West Bengal Monoranjan Sur Communist Party Of India 86.31%
4 Arambagh West Bengal Anil Basu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 85.96%
5 Tripura West Tripura Santosh Mohan Dev Indian National Congress 85.75%
6 Barasat West Bengal Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 85.57%
7 Medinipur SC West Bengal Asim Bala Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 85.43%
8 Tamluk West Bengal Satyagopal Mistra Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 85.32%
9 Panskura West Bengal Gita Mukherjee Communist Party Of India 85.28%
10 Lakshadweep ST P. M. Sayeed Indian National Congress 84.99%
11 Alappuzha Kerala Vakkom Purushotham Indian National Congress 84.87%
12 Kottayam Kerala Ramesh Chennithala Indian National Congress 84.57%
13 Mathurapur SC West Bengal Radhikaranjan Pramanik Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 84.51%
14 Balurghat SC West Bengal Palas Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party 83.85%
15 Katwa West Bengal Saifuddin Chaudhury Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.68%
16 Hooghly West Bengal Rupchand Pal Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.49%
17 Burdwan West Bengal Sudhir Ray Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.31%
18 Murshidabad West Bengal Masudal Hossain Syed Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.20%
19 Kannur Kerala Mullappally Ramachandran Indian National Congress 83.14%
20 Medinipur West Bengal Sudhir Giri Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.89%
21 Krishnanagar West Bengal Ajoy Mukherjee Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.69%
22 Mukundapuram Kerala Savithri Lakshmanan Indian National Congress 82.42%
23 Kozhikode Kerala K. Muraleedharan Indian National Congress 82.27%
24 Bishnupur SC West Bengal Sukhendu Khan Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.12%
25 Muvattupuzha Kerala P. C. Thomas Kerala Congress(M) 81.87%

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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