2.4 per cent more voters this time

GANDHINGAR: Gujarat has recorded a net increase of 2.4 per cent voters in the special summary revision exercise undertaken by the election machinery in the last three months. The exercise concluded on Friday with the number of voters in the state going up to 3.78 crore.
The figure stood at 3.69 crores on June 1 this year. Of the total addition of voters, the number of female voters was 6,40,664 while 5,99,373 were males.The election machinery deleted 1,83,277 male voters and 1,92,641 female voters during the exercise.
"Of the deletions, 80,945 have died while others have shifted to new locations," said an official of the State Election Commission. An interesting aspect of the exercise was the registration of 12.8 lakh freshers in the last three months that fall in the age group of 18-19 years. "Ahmedabad district tops the list as almost 1.40 lakh (11 per cent) of the total freshers have been registered in the district since June," said an official. Another achievement of the election machinery is reflected through the substantial increase in the gender ratio. The figure that had stood at 907 females per thousand male voters till June has now gone up to 910.
According to the census figures, gender ratio in the state stands at 918. A total of 99.4 per cent of the voters in the state possess Electronic Photo Identity cards (EPIC) and 99.18 of the total voters have their photos on the electoral rolls.