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Gender-Wise Voting Percentage from 3 to 17 General Elections
General Elections* Male Female

Third Lok Sabha (1962) 63.31 46.63

Fourth Lok Sabha (1967) 66.73 55.48

Fifth Lok Sabha (1971) 60.09 49.11

Sixth Lok Sabha (1977) 65.63 54.91

Seventh Lok Sabha (1980) 62.16 51.22

Eighth Lok Sabha (1984-85) 61.2 58.6

Nineth Lok Sabha (1989) 66.13 57.32

Tenth Lok Sabha (1991-92) 61.58 51.35

Eleventh Lok Sabha (1996) 62.06 53.41

Twelfth Lok Sabha (1998) 65.72 57.88

Thirteenth Lok Sabha (1999) 63.97 55.64

Fourteenth Lok Sabha (2004) 61.66 53.3

Fifteenth Lok Sabha (2009) 60.24 55.82

Sixteenth Lok Sabha (2014) 67.09 65.3

Seventeenth Lok Sabha (2019) 67.01 67.18

* For the first two general elections (1951-52 and 1957), gender-wise break up of voters is not available.

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