{"id":3478,"date":"2026-04-30T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:24:37","slug":"bengal-records-historic-92-9-voter-turnout-after-phase-2-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/04\/30\/bengal-records-historic-92-9-voter-turnout-after-phase-2-polling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal records historic 92.9% voter turnout after Phase 2 polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s West Bengal has recorded a historic voter turnout of 92.9% after the second phase of assembly elections, marking one of the highest participation rates in the country\u2019s electoral history.<\/p><p>Polling across 142 constituencies in Phase 2 saw a turnout of 92.6%, significantly surpassing the 81.5% recorded in 2021 and even exceeding the state\u2019s previous best of 84.3% in 2011. Officials from the Election Commission of India said the figures reflect an unprecedented level of voter engagement.<\/p><p>Women voters led participation with a turnout of 93.2%, compared to 91.7% among men. In total, around 6.3 crore votes were cast, higher than the 5.9 crore recorded in the previous election despite a reduced voter base.<\/p><p>Kolkata also saw a sharp rise in turnout, reaching about 88.4%, a significant jump from just over 60% in 2021. Districts like East Burdwan topped the chart with over 93% participation.<\/p><p>Officials attributed the surge to improved security measures, updated voter rolls, and increased accessibility, including polling booths in residential complexes. Security forces will remain deployed until vote counting is completed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s West Bengal has recorded a historic voter turnout of 92.9% after the second phase of assembly elections, marking one of the highest participation rates in the country\u2019s electoral history. Polling across 142 constituencies in Phase 2 saw a turnout of 92.6%, significantly surpassing the 81.5% recorded in 2021 and even exceeding the state\u2019s previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}