During the lastUttarakhandassembly in 2017, plain districts recorded the highest voter turnouts and hill districts, where Migration had emptied out villages, the least. A report named Migration & Uttarakhand 2017 Electoral Data, released on Friday by Dehradun-based think tank Social Development for Communities (SDC) Foundation, suggests that migration was a major reason behind constituencies in remote areas recording very low voting. According to the report, the Average voter turnout in Uttarakhand was 65.6% in 2017.
In 2017, the highest voter turnout, between 81-82%, was recorded in three constituencies of plain district Haridwar: Laksar (81.95%), Haridwar (rural) (81.76%) and Piran Kaliyar (81.6%). The lowest turnouts were in three seats of two hill districts:Salt(46.01%) in Almora district, Chaubattakhal (46.91%) and Lansdowne (47.87%), both in Pauri Garhwal district. Ghansali inTehri Garhwaldistrict had 49.19 polling Percentage.