New Delhi: As the Election Commission of India released the constituency-wise data on the number of votes cast in the first five phases of the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections on Saturday, here are seven constituencies that recorded the lowest polling percentage in the data collected so far.

Election Commission Data: 7 Lok Sabha Seats With Lowest Vote Percentage Till 5th Phase:

• 38.49% Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
• 43.17%  Nawada, Bihar 
• 48.48%  Hyderabad, Telangana
• 49.04% Secunderabad, Telangana 
• 49.41%  Mathura, Uttar Pradesh 
• 49.59%  Karauli-Dholpur, Rajasthan 
• 49.88%  Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 

Asserting that there is a pattern in creating false narratives and mischievous design to vitiate the electoral process, the poll body said that any alteration in the number of votes polled is not possible.

The poll panel came out with the absolute number of voters on its own a day after the Supreme Court refused to issue directions to it on an NGO's plea for uploading polling booth-wise voter turnout data on its website.

The EC said it has decided to further expand the format of turnout data to include the absolute number of voters in every parliamentary constituency.

The absolute numbers are discernable parliamentary constituency-wise by all citizens by applying the turnout percentage to total electors, both already made available in the public domain, the poll panel said.

Electors are those who are part of the electoral roll and eligible to voters. Voters are those who actually cast their vote in an election. While EC had been issuing turnout percentage, there had been demands to make the actual number of voters in every phase public.