India
Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: Total turnout goes up to 79.63% after factoring in postal ballots
Brief
These are provisional numbers with service votes yet to be added; Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar rejects allegations of undue delay in the publication of the complete poll data
The total voter turnout in the Assembly elections in Kerala went up to 79.63% after the postal votes were factored in, Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar has said.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said that these were provisional numbers with service votes yet to be added. The number of service votes out of a total of 53,984 such voters will be known only on counting day, he said.
