Shillong: Meghalaya registered a voter turnout of 85.17 per cent for the assembly elections that held on Monday, Chief Electoral Officer Fredrick Roy Kharkongor said on Tuesday.
The voter turnout percentage is a marginal drop from the 2018 assembly elections which was 86.9 per cent.
“85.17 per cent overall without postal ballot. If polls were held in Sohiong which is a rural AC with traditionally high voting ,the percentage could have touched 86 per cent plus,” Kharkongor said.
Election in Sohiong Assembly constituency seat has been adjourned following the death of former Home Minister and United Democratic Party candidate, Horju Donkupar Roy Lyngdoh due to massive cardiac arrest on February 21.
Kharkongor said Mokaiaw assembly constituency in West Jaintia Hills district and Rajabala registered the highest voter turnout with over 92 per cent each. South Shillong assembly constituency receives recorded the lowest voter turnout with 62 per cent.
Counting of votes will be held on March 2.
