Only 27% of registered third gender electors voted in 2024 LS polls: EC

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According to the data issued by the poll authority last week, 48,194 people were eligible to vote as third gender elector in 2024, compared to 39,075 in 2019 -- an increase of 23.5 per cent over the five-year period.

More people enrolled themselves in the voters' list for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the 'third gender' category but only 27 per cent of them turned up at the polling stations, according to Election Commission data.

But only 13,058 of them actually exercised their franchise, which comes to 27 per cent of the total registered third gender electors.

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