As many as 1,25,556 new voters have been registered in Himachal ahead of upcoming Assembly polls. The new voters include 40,567 voters in the age group of 18-19 years and 84,989 voters above 19 years of age.
After the revision of electoral rolls, there are now 49,05,677 registered voters in the State out of which 24,98,174 are male and 24,07,503 female voters.
Himachal chief electoral officer Pushpendra Rajput on Saturday said the work on special revision of photo electoral rolls of all Assembly constituencies of the State had been completed and the voter lists had been published on September 15.
He said the names of 47,523 voters had been deleted from voters list due to death or change of place or double registration.
The chief electoral officer said in all, there had been increase of 78,033 voters (1.62 percent) in the State. He said that the highest constituency voters in the state are 92,753 in Sulah assembly constituency of Kangra district, whereas the minimum voters are 22,849 in lahaul & Spiti constituency.
The electoral rolls of all assembly segments had been made available on the website of the state election department besides in district election offices, offices of SDM, ADM, tehsildar, naib tehsildar and booth level officers of every polling center, where anybody can check them free of cost, he added.