New Delhi, April 15 -- In 1967, the female voter turnout was lower than the male turnout by a whopping 11.3 percentage points. This gap remained intact through the subsequent decades, dropping only marginally to 8.4 percentage points in 2004. That gap dramatically fell to 4.4 percentage points by 2009. By 2014, it dropped even further to 1.8 percentage points. In parts of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and in all of Pondicherry, women voters outnumbered men, despite being lower in numbers. In the last four decades, the female vote has increased by 19 per cent, while the male vote has increased by only 3.8 per cent.
Women are voting in larger numbers than ever before. And 2019 could be the first year when a larger percentage of women would v...