{"id":10813,"date":"2026-04-11T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:53:07","slug":"130182588-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=10813","title":{"rendered":"Highest-ever women voter turnout in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130182586,imgsize-1395387,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Highest-ever women voter turnout in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Women aced voter turnout in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, not only recording their highest-ever polling percentage but also surpassing the male voter turnout in the two states and the Union territory.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/> A whopping 91.4% of the female electorate in Puducherry, 86.5% in Assam and 81.2% in Kerala voted. In comparison, the male voter turnout was 88.1% in Puducherry, 85.3% in Assam and 75.1% in Kerala. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/> The gender turnout gap was the widest in Kerala, at nearly 6 percentage points, as against 3.2 percentage points in Puducherry and just 1.1 percentage points in Assam. The enthusiastic participation by women electors pushed up the overall polling percentage across the three states\/UT. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/> Most political parties have been targeting women electors in their manifesto promises. In Kerala, LDF has promised to raise women&#8217;s participation in the workforce to 50%, while UDF has offered women free travel in state buses.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/highest-ever-women-voter-turnout-in-kerala-assam-and-puducherry\/articleshow\/130182588.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Women aced voter turnout in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, not only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4478,724,26595,723,719,720,721,7310,722,26596,26594,26597],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assam-elections","tag-breaking-news","tag-female-electorate-percentage","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-kerala-elections","tag-today-news","tag-voter-turnout-statistics","tag-women-voter-turnout","tag-womens-participation-in-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}