Overview
- Bihar’s assembly polls recorded about 66.9% turnout, the highest since 1951, according to the Election Commission.
- Women voted at roughly 71% in Bihar, outpacing men by about eight percentage points across the two-phase election.
- The Election Commission monitored 45,399 polling centres via webcasting, and 16 international delegates from six countries praised the process.
- Analysts note the Special Intensive Revision removed around 3.07 million names from Bihar’s rolls, a factor raised when interpreting percentage gains.
- Iraq held parliamentary elections using a card swipe and fingerprint before issuing ballots to choose a 329-seat legislature with at least 25% of seats reserved for women, featuring 7,744 candidates at 8,703 polling centres and about 21.4 million updated registrations under the muhasassa-based system.