About 1.35 lakh first-time voters will exercise their franchise in the February 15 poll. According to the official data, 14, 906 voters aged above 90 years will also vote in this election. Statistics further reveals that a large number of victorious candidates scarped through in the last election, winning by the margins of less than one thousand votes.
The maximum number of the first- time voters -3418 voters- 2002 male and 1416 female - are in Kashipur constituency while in other 69 Assembly constituencies, the number of such voters is around 2000. As far as the voters aged above 90 are concerned, 14906 voters will exercise their votes. Around 300 voters who are 90+ are scattered among several seats like 379 in Rajpur Road, 307 in Mussoorie, 312 in Jwalapur, 334 Yamkeshwar, 375 in Pauri, 312 in Chaubattakhal, 303 in Bajpur and 355 in Gadarpur.
As per statistics, numbers of second and third -time voters aged 19-29 are 20, 67, 364. The numbers of voters in the age group of 30-39 are 19, 30, 647 while 13, 86, 453 voters are in the age group of 40-49. The numbers of voters in the age group of 50-59 are 9, 38, 240 while the figure for the age group of 60-69 voters is 6, 20, 689. The numbers of voters in the age group of 70-79 are 3, 18, 693 while 1, 00, 374 voters fall in the age group of 80-89 years.