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In total, 41 seats saw women voters outnumbering men. On 31 of these, the gap was more than one percentage point
Gokalpur assembly in the North East Delhi saw highest women turnout at 68.60 per cent, ahead of total voter turnout 68.29 per cent as well as men’s at 68.02 per cent. (PTI)
Women in Delhi will decide who will rule over the national capital as they outnumbered men in the overall average turnout as well as in 41 assembly seats, data from Election Commission of India (EC) analysed by News18 shows.
The city went for polls on Wednesday and the poll body issued the final polling percentage on Friday evening. The overall voter turnout in the city was 60.54 per cent. The average turnout of women stood at 60.92 per cent as against men’s 60.21 per cent.
Mustafabad (69.01 per cent) registered the highest voter turnout followed by Seelampur (68.71 per cent); Gokalpur (68.29 per cent); Babarpur (65.86 per cent); Rohtas Nagar (65.3 per cent); Trilokpuri (65.28 per cent); Seemapuri (65.25 per cent); and Matia Mahal (65.11 per cent).
Mehrauli (53.02 per cent) and Model Town (53.62 per cent) were the seats with lowest voter turnout.
RK Puram (54.01 per cent); Malviya Nagar (54.07 per cent); Kasturba Nagar (54.15 per cent); Karol Bagh (54.55 per cent); Kalkaji (54.59 per cent); Greater Kailash (54.92 per cent) and Okhla (54.96 per cent) were the seats with lowest voter turnouts.
Women’s Performance
Gokalpur assembly in the North East Delhi saw highest women turnout at 68.60 per cent, ahead of total voter turnout 68.29 per cent as well as men’s at 68.02 per cent.
Mustafabad (68.52 per cent); Seelampur (67.02 per cent); Trilokpuri (65.92 per cent); Babarpur (65.39 per cent), Seemapuri (65.04 per cent) and Karwal Nagar (65.01 per cent) were the seats where women voter turnout was above 65 per cent-mark.
Model Town (54.11 per cent) registered lowest female turnout. A total of six seats registered female voter turnout below 55 per cent-mark — Mehrauli (54.43 per cent), Karol Bagh (54.44 per cent), Kasturba Nagar (54.53 per cent), Malviya Nagar (54.66 per cent), and Greater Kailash (54.92 per cent).
Women Outnumbering Men
The analysis of the data shows Okhla had the highest gap among the seats where women voters outnumbered men voter turnout. As against total average voter turnout 54.96 per cent, women’s was 58.27 per cent while men’s was 52.54 per cent.
Matia Mahal was on the other end of the spectrum, where the gender gap was in favour of men. Voter turnout was higher for men at 67.57 per cent while women was at 62.49 per cent. The overall turnout at the seat was 65.11 per cent.
In the New Delhi seat, where the voters sealed the fate of AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, women voters (57.27 per cent) outnumbered men (55.66 per cent) by close to two percentage points.
In Kalkaji, from where outgoing chief minister Atihsi is trying her luck, the gap was around three percentage points – 56.12 per cent of women voter turnout against men’s 53.33 per cent.
Greater Kailash was the seat where the turnout of both the genders was same at 54.92 per cent.
In total, 41 seats saw women voters outnumbering men. On 31 of these, the gap was more than one percentage point.
The seats where women outnumbered men were Okhla, Sangam Vihar, RK Puram, Tughlakabad, Dwarka, Badarpur, Kalkaji, Chhatarpur, Mehrauli, Patparganj, Delhi Cantt, Burari, Vikaspuri, Wazirpur, Adarsh Nagar, Kirari, Badli, New Delhi, Rajinder Nagar, Deoli, Bawana, Kondli, Laxmi Nagar, Nangloi Jat, Mundka, Trilokpuri, Palam, Malviya Nagar, Karawal Nagar, Jangpura, Matiala, Model Town, Moti Nagar, Sultanpur Majra, Bijwasan, Kasturba Nagar, Timarpur, Gokalpur, Nerela, Uttam Nagar and Patel Nagar.
On 28 seats, men outnumbered female voters — Vishwas Nagar, Ghonda, Gandhi Nagar, Karol Bagh, Ambedkar Nagar, Najafgarh, Seemapuri, Rithala, Janakpuri, Chandni Chowk, Babarpur, Rajouri Garden, Mustafabad, Mangol Puri, Shalimar Bagh, Hari Nagar, Tri Nagar, Madipur, Shahdara, Tilak Nagar, Ballimaran, Shakur Basti, Rohini, Sadar Bazar, Rohtas Nagar, Seelam Pur, Krishna Nagar, and Matia Mahal.
Overall Turnout Impacted
The voter turnout at 60.54 per cent is very low when compared to the last few elections. In 2020, the average turnout was over 62 per cent and in 2015 it was the highest in history at 67 per cent. Even in 2013, the turnout was 65.63 per cent.
Similarly, the voter turnout of each gender in 2025 was also lowest in the last four elections. In 2015 and 2013 polls, the men and women voter turnout were above 65 per cent.
The voter turnout is the average number of voters who step out to vote on the polling day. A turnout of 60 per cent means that out of every 100 voters, 60 came to the polling booths on the day of polling. The more voters at the polling booths, the higher the turnout.
Since the last three elections, the voter turnout of both the genders have dropped consistently.
