On the last date for filing claims for enrolment as electors, a total number of 1,82,890 Form-6 were received under continuous updation of electoral rolls till Friday, Additional Chief Electoral Officer D.K.Rattan said here on Saturday.
He said these forms will be disposed of by the ERO concerned (Electoral Registration Officer) by April 29 and the applicants whose forms will be accepted by the EROs will be eligible to cast their votes on May 19 in the Lok Sabha elections.
Rattan said, in addition to it, 69 forms for enrolment as electors have also been received from the overseas citizens which will also be processed and decided by April 29.
The official stated that 15,803 forms for deletion received before the date of announcement of elections have already been decided. He said after special summary revision, final publication of electoral rolls was made on 21 January and at that time, 50,96,869 electors
were registered which included 25,84,183 male, 25,12,627 female and 59 third gender. At the time of final
publication, the number of first time electors was 88,127 which has now increased to 1,33,083.
This number will further increase when forms received will be decided and
disposed off by the EROs upto April 29.
Rattan added that number of service electors which was 62,131, at the time of final publication made on 22 February will also increase as 5,437 more applications have been received from the Army Record Offices which will also be decided and disposed.