The polling percentage for male voters was higher at 66.3 per cent and for female it was 63.2 per cent. The entire balloting was conducted by electronic voting machines for the first time in an assembly election in the country. Poinguinim assembly constituency in South Goa and Poriem constituency in North Goa recorded the highest individual polling at 75.8 per cent and 74.4 per cent respectively.

Poriem is the traditional constituency of Pratapsingh Rane, who is among five other former chief ministers, whose electoral fate was sealed in the ballot boxes. Vasco assembly constituency in South Goa and Panaji in North Goa recorded lowest polling at 51.7 per cent and 55.9 per cent respectively. Though 65 per cent polling now registered was lower than the 71 per cent recorded during the last assemblyelections in 1994, the elections then were held for all the 40 constituencies. Polling was held for 39 assembly constituencies this time after a Congress candidate, Aleixo Sequeira, was declared elected from Loutolim unopposed.