RECORD POLLING IN  TRIPURA ELECTIONS      ##   38561 / 50000 Postal ballets received.

Agartala, Feb 16 (IANS)  ::  India's northeastern state of Tripura made electoral history when a record 93.57 percent votes were cast in Thursday's election to the 60-seat assembly, officials said here Saturday.

"About 93.57 percent of the 23,55,446 electorates have exercised their franchise and this was an all time high percentage of votes polled in any election in India," said Ashutosh Jindal, the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Tripura.

He said: "Since the first elections in 1952 in the country, this was an all time record in the electoral history of India."

Tripura recorded around 92 percent polling in the last assembly elections in 2008.

Like the previous elections in Tripura, more women voters cast the ballot than their male counterparts.

"Of the total of 11,98,970 male voters, 90.89 percent cast their votes while 93.02 percent of the 11,56,476 female electorates have exercised their franchise in the polls," Jindal told IANS.

Through the postal ballots, 38,561 of the total of 50,000 polling and security personnel cast their votes.

 //IANS//