Over 1 lakh voters in Mumbai chose not to vote for any political party in the recently held civic elections. According to the data from the election commission, a total of 1,00,327 Mumbaikars voted NOTA out of the 54,76,043 votes polled in the elections on January 15, registering a voter turnout of 52 per cent, of which 1.83 per cent of votes went to NOTA.

Highest NOTA per cent

Of the overall votes polled across the city, the highest number and percentage of NOTA votes were polled in the western suburbs. A total of 47,936 NOTA votes were polled in the western suburbs from Dahisar to Bandra, comprising 1.9 per cent of the total votes polled. This also corresponds to the highest voter turnout that was recorded in the western suburbs of Borivli and Dahisar.