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City gets 2.39 lakh voters just before civic body polls
- by Webdesk
- 07 Jan 2017
The State Election Commission had conducted a massive drive between September-October 2016. During this driver, the city have seen an increase of 2.39 lakh voters. This increased the total number of voters in the city to 91,80,635, with the highest number of voters, 3.45 lakh, from the Chandivli assembly constituency in the western suburbs.
The revised electoral roll was announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday.
In Mumbai, the BMC wards will have about 40,400 voters per ward. Against the city’s projected population of 1.35 crore, the expected number of voters is 92.45 lakh, just 65,000 lesser than the actual number. However, ECI officials claimed registration by first-time voters (18-19 years) is comparatively low. He said although the expected number of first-time voters was 35 lakh, only seven lakh have so far registered themselves.
“The massive addition of new voters is the result of the extensive drive we undertook. We had roped in colleges, universities and NGOs to motivate new voters to come forward and register themselves. It is true that the number of first-time voters is low, but it’s because of the poor response despite various drives,” JS Saharia, state election commissioner, told HT.
Although the city has a fair percentage of the voters to the proportion of the population, the western suburbs still have a large number of ASD (Absent, Shifted or Dead) voters in the list. The ECI had deleted 3.16 lakh ASD voters during a drive undertaken between January and August last year.
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