There had been an estimated 4.74 lakh more voters added to the voters list during a recent revision carried out in a total of 86 Assembly seats of the State.
There had been an increase of 4,74,396 voters in the entire state, official sources here informed.
Moreover, the District Election Office, after filing of claims and objections have published the final voter lists in the State.
After the final publication of the voter list the number of voters in the State stood at more than 1.67 crore out of which 85.24 lakh are male and 82.193 are female voters.
After recording the objections, it was found that there had been 1.14 per cent less voters in Dantewada and 1.38 times per cent less voters in Bijapur Assembly constituencies.
In both the Assembly constituencies, the number of voters had declined by 1979 and 2170 respectively. Similarly, in two more Assembly constituencies, voters declined by .33 per cent (625) in Rajim and Patan (.67 per cent) at 1159 voters.
In some of the constituencies voter percentage had however grown by less than one per cent. It was also found during the revision of voter lists that there had been a decline in the number of voters in Dantewada, Bijapur, Rajim and Patan.
Moreover, there are a total of 16 Assembly constituencies where number of women voters are higher than male voters. They are—Patthalgaon, Dharamjaygarh, Bindranwagarh, Sihava, Mohla Manpur, Bhanupratapur, Kanker, Keshkal, Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Bastar, Chitrakot, Dantewada, Bijapur and Konta.
This apart, after the revision of the voter list, a total of 1,19,690 names of male voters and 94,677 names of female voters were deleted from the list.