Highest Voter Turnout Lok Sabha Constituencies

1999 Lok Sabha (Parliament) Election · Top 25 constituencies by turnout

In the 1999 Lok Sabha election, the highest voter turnout was recorded in Tamluk (West Bengal) at 83.76% — 919,886 votes polled out of 1,098,196 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 Tamluk West Bengal Lakshman Chandra Seth Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 83.76%
2 Panskura West Bengal Gita Mukherjee Communist Party Of India 83.55%
3 Kanthi West Bengal Neetish Sengupta All India Trinamool Congress 83.15%
4 Arambagh West Bengal Anil Basu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 82.60%
5 Ladakh Hassan Khan Jammu & Kashmir National Conference 81.88%
6 Sikkim Sikkim Bhim Pd. Dahal Sikkim Democratic Front 81.71%
7 Barrackpur West Bengal Tarit Baran Topdar Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 81.25%
8 Jhargram ST West Bengal Rupchand Murmu Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 81.01%
9 Basirhat West Bengal Ajoy Chakraborty Communist Party Of India 80.93%
10 Burdwan West Bengal Sar Nikhilananda Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 80.93%
11 Cooch Behar SC West Bengal Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 80.83%
12 Lakshadweep ST P.M. Sayeed Indian National Congress 80.21%
13 Hooghly West Bengal Rupchand Pal Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 80.18%
14 Barasat West Bengal Dr.Ranjit Kumar Panja All India Trinamool Congress 80.08%
15 Kannur Kerala A.P. Abdullakkutty Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 79.05%
16 Bishnupur SC West Bengal Sandhya Bauri Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 78.96%
17 Katwa West Bengal Mahboob Zahedi Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 78.83%
18 Dhubri Assam Abdul Hamid Indian National Congress 78.58%
19 Medinipur West Bengal Indrajit Gupta Communist Party Of India 78.45%
20 Malda West Bengal Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 78.28%
21 Krishnanagar West Bengal Satyabrata Mookherjee Bharatiya Janata Party 77.96%
22 Kokrajhar ST Assam Sansuma Khunggur Bwismuthiary Independent 77.96%
23 Kasaragod Kerala T. Govindan Communist Party Of India (MARXIST) 77.64%
24 Chapra Bihar Rajiv Pratap Rudi Bharatiya Janata Party 77.61%
25 Raiganj West Bengal Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Indian National Congress 77.35%

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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