The Election Commission of India, after a brief roll revision, has published the final electoral rolls ahead of the UP assembly election due in next few weeks.
In the final rolls there is marked improvement in gender ratio, which has increased from 857 to 868. After the roll revision the number of total voters in the state has increased from 14.71 crore to a little over 15 crore.
In revised rolls, a little over 52.88 lakh new voters have been added which includes 28,86,988 females and 1,636 transgender. The number of new voters of 18-19 years of age added to the rolls is a little over 14, 66 lakhs, which is 27.76 per cent of the new voters added in the rolls. The total number of voters in the 18 years age group is 19,89,902.
Chief Electoral Officer of UP Ajay Shukla said here on Wednesday that during the roll revision, claims and objections from the citizens were invited and flaws in the rolls like duplication and other flaws in rolls were rectified.
He said during the roll revision over 21.40 lakh names of voters were deleted from the electoral rolls, which included over 10 lakh dead voters, over 3.32 lakh in shifted category and over 7.94 lakh in repeated category.
The CEO said the EP ratio (Elector-People) had also improved from 61.21 per cent to 62.52 per cent. As per EP ratio, out of every 100 persons 62.52 persons are voters. He said the number of voters over 80 years of age was 24,03,296.