2023 Chhattisgarh election: Degree of naxal influence on voting declines in the State | Data

Analysis of NOTA vote share in Chhattisgarh Assembly elections shows decline in LWE influence. Table 1 & 2 show NOTA vote share in 2023 & 2018 polls, respectively. As more votes get counted, story will be updated.

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 compared to the 2018 results show that the Naxal influence on voting in Chhattisgarh has come down considerably. This story is based on the 25% of votes counted in Chhattisgarh till now, and will be updated later.

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

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.

The story will be updated as more votes get counted.