{"id":11105,"date":"2026-04-11T23:51:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11105"},"modified":"2026-04-11T23:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T23:51:53","slug":"130201011-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11105","title":{"rendered":"Assam turnout nears record 86%, highest rise in Muslim-majority districts | 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-130201009,imgsize-827664,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Assam turnout nears record 86%, highest rise in Muslim-majority districts\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>GUWAHATI: The voter turnout in the 2026 Assam assembly polls further climbed on Sunday, reaching close to 86%, according to the EC&#8217;s last update. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/> This marks the highest turnout in the state&#8217;s history, surpassing previous highs of 84.7% in 2016, and 82% in 2021.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/> Speaking to reporters in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajasthan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajasthan<\/a>, CM <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/himanta-biswa-sarma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Himanta Biswa Sarma<\/a> said, &#8220;All Sanatani people have voted en masse for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nda\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">NDA<\/a>. We will secure 90-100 seats in the state this time.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/> The Muslim belt, comprising the 10 Muslim-majority districts, recorded an average turnout rise of 4.7 points over 2021, the highest in the state.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/assam-turnout-nears-record-86-highest-rise-in-muslim-majority-districts\/articleshow\/130201011.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: The voter turnout in the 2026 Assam assembly polls further climbed on Sunday, reaching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4478,724,723,3480,719,720,721,27193,13072,3286,722,27194],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assam-elections","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-news","tag-himanta-biswa-sarma","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-muslim-majority-districts","tag-nda","tag-rajasthan","tag-today-news","tag-turnout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","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=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}