The voter strength in the 119 Assembly constituencies of Telangana has increased to 3.17 crore with male and female voters numbered at 1.58 crore each.
This is 17.42 lakh, 5.8 per cent, higher than the number of voters after the special summary revision of voters released on January 5. The number of voters in the age group 18-19 showed a significant increase to 8.11 lakh, 5.32 lakh more than the close to 2.8 lakh registered during the SSR in January this year. The Election Commission of India has released the final list of electors in the State on Wednesday. There are 2,557 voters belonging to the third gender in addition to 15,338 service electors and 2,780 overseas electors. There are 4.43 lakh voters above 80 years of age and 5.06 lakh electors were persons with disabilities.
The final roll has been released following the applications released till September 19 and settlement of claims and objections till September 28. In all, 17.01 lakh new voters were added, 6.1 lakh votes deleted and corrections made in the details pertaining to 5.8 lakh voters. The ECI said the ratio of female voters to male voters improved from 992 in the previous summary revision to 998 and the gender ratio in the 18 to 19 age group improved from 707 to 743.
