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Chennai vote percentage ‘impressive’, but actual votes cast rose only marginally – SIR impact revealed

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Chennai: In the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Chennai recorded an unprecedented 83.7 percent voter turnout—a historic high. However, the actual number of voters who cast their ballots increased only marginally compared to previous elections. In the 2016 elections, 61.2 percent of votes were recorded in Chennai, with 24,22,915 individuals casting their votes out of a total electorate of 39,75,976. In the 2021 Assembly elections, when Chenna…
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NEWS9 LIVE broke the news on Saturday, April 25, 2026.
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