Preliminary turnout data released from the Bihar elections by the Election Commission of India reveals that at least 4,34,000 more women than men turned out to vote in the two phases. In percentage terms, the turnout among women was 71.6% while that for men was 62.8%.

Again it is to be noted that this data is provisional, does not include service and postal ballot voters and also does not include transgender voters. These numbers are subject to some amount of change once more data pours in from across polling booths in the State.

Yet a much higher number of women turning out to vote is remarkable considering the fact that in the final electorate in the rolls prepared by the ECI following its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) , there were 42.33 lakh fewer women than men in the rolls. T

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