With the Assembly elections in Delhi around the corner, the Delhi Chief Electoral Office has shared data showing around 4.96  lakh new voters have been identified over the last year. As of Tuesday, there are 1.53 crore registered voters in the city. Of them, 82.78 lakh of them male and 70.77 lakh female. There were 1.48 crore registered voters in 2023.  The gender ratio also improved from 840 in 2023 to 855 in 2024.

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi P Krishnamurthy announced on Tuesday launched the Special Summary Revision of Electoral Roll 2025 across all the 70 assembly constituencies, aiming to update and correct voter information ahead of the elections in the national capital scheduled for February next year. 

This initiative allows citizens to make corrections in their details, report inaccuracies and register objections to any erroneous inclusions in the voter list, according to an official statement. “Special Summary Revision-2025 will be carried out in NCT of Delhi in accordance with the schedule prescribed by the ECI,” an official statement reads.

According to CEO, Delhi, January 6, 2025 will be the date for final publication of the electoral roll as the assembly polls in Delhi is expected around February. The final electoral roll, to be published after the summary revision is completed, will be the final for the assembly elections.

Meanwhile, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal along with party’s leaders are conducting padyatras to convince voters yet again.

The BJP is intensifying its outreach to the Purvanchali community, which constitutes 42% of Delhi's electorate.

Inspired by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra,  Delhi Congress has launched a month-long ‘Delhi Nyay Yatra’ to revive its core voters.

Starting from the Gandhi Samadhi, the yatra will span four phases from November 8 to December 4 and will cover all 70 constituencies.

As per Delhi CEO data, there are additional 64 third gender voters have taken the tally to 1,231 in the voters’ list.

Those between the age of 18-19 years have almost doubled from 81,657 last year to 1.55 lakh this time.

Krishnamurthy also said that the primary objective of the Special Summary Revision – 2025 is to include newly eligible and left out voters w.r.t. 01.01.2025 i.e. who have completed or will be completing the age of 18 years on or before date 01.01.2025.

“Another objective for the Special Summary Revision-2025 is to give opportunities for correction in electors’ particulars and also to invite objections against any wrong inclusion in the Electoral Roll,” the statement added.