A total of 3.39 lakh new voters have increased in Madhya Pradesh. This was found after special summary revision of photo electoral rolls in all 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in the State on the directives of Election Commission of India. The process was started from June 7 when number of voters was 4.61 crore, which has increased to 4.64 crore now.
After brief summary revision on January 15, number of voters in draft electoral rolls was 4.59 crore. Thus, number of voters had increased by one lakh 68 thousand 202. After campaign launched from June 7, it has increased to 3.39 lakh.
In this way, there are 2.44 crore male and 2.19 crore 210 female voters in the state now. As on June 7, the number of male voters was 2.43 crore and female voters 2.17 crore.
Meanwhile, other voters’ number has declined. It was 1138 as on June 7, which has come down to 1125. Minor increase has been witnessed in gender ratio of voters. As on June 7, male gender ratio was 896 which has increased to 897 while female gender ratio is static at 930. As on June 7 last, EPIC card percentage of male and female voters was 99.80 and 99.77 percent respectively, which has increased to 99.87 percent in both genders after publication of final electoral rolls. Ratio of electoral participation has increased from 61.22 percent to 61.67 percent. Number of service voters was 19 thousand 669, which has increased to 19 thousand 815 now. NRI voters’ number is static at 6.
It is noteworthy that after publication of draft under special summary revision of photo electoral rolls programme on June 7, claims and objections were received till June 22. Electoral rolls’ concerning portions were read out and names verified at meetings of Gram Sabha/local bodies and Regional Welfare Associations from June 11 to 14.
Special campaign with booth-level agents of political parties for receiving claims and objections was held from June 9 to 16 and were disposed of on July 4. After database update, affixation of photographs, updation of control-table and preparation and printing of supplementary lists on July 19, the final photo electoral rolls have been published today.