Delhi's satellite districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar witnessed a marginal hike in NOTA voters in the Lok Sabha elections, accounting for 26,241 votes, according to official data.
The maximum None Of The Above (NOTA) voters were from Gautam Buddh Nagar, while Gurgaon had the lowest NOTA numbers, the Election Commission data showed.
Altogether Gurgaon, Faridabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad had 26,241 NOTA votes this time, up from 15,577 in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, when the choice was first made available to voters in parliamentary elections, it showed.
Gurgaon registered 5,389 NOTA votes (0.37 per cent of total votes cast), up from 2,658 from 2014 (0.20 per cent of total votes cast), according to the data.
The 'Millennium City' elected BJP's Rao Inderjit Singh with a vote share of 60.94 per cent, while Congress' Ajay Singh got 34.24 per cent votes and BSP's Chaudhary Rais Ahmed could manage 1.85 per cent of all votes cast.
Faridabad had 4,986 NOTA votes (0.38 per cent of total votes cast), up from 3,328 from 2014 (0.29 per cent of total votes cast), it showed. The industrial hub witnessed a landslide victory of BJP's Krishan Pal, who secured 68.9 per cent of all votes cast against Congress' Avtar Singh Bhadana (20.72 per cent) and BSP's Mandhir Maan (6.54 per cent).
Ghaziabad had 7,495 NOTA votes (0.45 per cent of total votes cast), up from 6,205 from 2014 (0.46 per cent of total votes cast), the data showed. In Ghaziabad, BJP's V K Singh alone polled 61.96 per cent of all votes cast, followed by SP's Suresh Bansal (29.06 per cent) and Congress's Dolly Sharma (7.34 per cent)
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