Chhattisgarh Election Results 2023 | Degree of naxal influence on voting declines in the State | Data

NOTA vote share declines considerably in the State in the 2023 Assembly election compared to 2018

Chhattisgarh: Pahari Korwa tribe voters stand in queues to cast their votes for the Assembly elections, in Jashpur on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI

An analysis of NOTA vote share in the past Assembly elections shows that the share has been relatively high in areas affected by Left-Wing Extremism (LWE). Many such Assembly seats were in Chhattisgarh. But, a comparison of the NOTA vote share in the 2023 Chhattisgarh elections to the 2018 results show that the Naxal influence on voting in the State has come down considerably. T

Table 1 shows the NOTA vote share percentage in the latest and the previous Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh

• As can be observed from the table, the NOTA vote share has declined from 2% in 2018 to 1.3% in 2023.

Table 2 shows that the number of seats in which NOTA vote share crossed the 5% mark, was between the 2-5% mark, and less than the 2% mark in the 2023 and 2018 Chhattisgarh Assembly elections.

• As can be observed from the table, the number of seats with a NOTA share of more than 5% has declined from four in 2018 to one in the 2023 elections. The number of seats with a NOTA vote share of 2-5% has also decreased from 38 to 13.
• These two tables show that the naxal influence on voting has come down.