Gujarat Polls 2017: More Voters Chose NOTA Over National Parties

NOTA polled nearly 1.8 percent of the vote share in Gujarat.

None of the above.

The option to choose not to vote for any political candidate in an election.

In the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, as many as 5,51,294 voters decided not to vote for any political party or candidate.

NOTA polled nearly 1.8 percent of the vote share in the state. This is more than the 0.7 percent vote share – or 2,22,694 of the electorate – of Chhotu Vasava’s Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP). The Congress had agreed to share seats with the BTP as part of its post-Rajya Sabha election commitment.