Highest Voter Turnout Lok Sabha Constituencies

1991 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by turnout

In the 1991 Lok Sabha election, the highest voter turnout was recorded in Cooch Behar (West Bengal) at 84.85% — 833,066 votes polled out of 981,865 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 84.85%
2 Dhubri Assam Nurul Islam Indian National Congress 84.79%
3 Kokrajhar ST Assam Satyendra Nath Brohmo Choudhury Independent 84.55%
4 Basirhat West Bengal Monoranjan Sur Communist Party Of India 84.30%
5 Nabadwip SC West Bengal Asim Bala Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.37%
6 Barasat West Bengal Chitta Basu All India Forward Bloc 83.11%
7 Panskura West Bengal Gita Mukherjee (W) Communist Party Of India 83.06%
8 Arambagh West Bengal Anil Basu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.93%
9 Krishnanagar West Bengal Ajoy Mukhopadhyay Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.34%
10 Tamluk West Bengal Satyagopal Misra Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.32%
11 Balurghat SC West Bengal Palas Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party 82.08%
12 Mathurapur SC West Bengal Radhika Ranjan Pramanick Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 81.72%
13 Barpeta Assam Uddhab Barman Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 81.26%
14 Katwa West Bengal Saifuddin Chowdhry Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 81.15%
15 Murshidabad West Bengal Masudal Hossain Syed Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 81.01%
16 Burdwan West Bengal Sudhir Ray Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 80.57%
17 Kanthi West Bengal Sudhir Giri Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 80.02%
18 Hooghly West Bengal Rupchand Pal Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 79.42%
19 Bishnupur SC West Bengal Sukhendu Khan Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 78.99%
20 Jaynagar SC West Bengal Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party 78.88%
21 Alappuzha Kerala T.J. Anjalose Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 78.50%
22 Jalpaiguri West Bengal Jitendra Nath Das Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 78.40%
23 Malda West Bengal Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhary Indian National Congress 78.36%
24 Jhargram ST West Bengal Rupchand Murmu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 78.08%
25 Mukundapuram Kerala Savithri Lakshmanan (W) Indian National Congress 77.74%

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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