Karnataka: 5.37 crore voters set to elect 28 MPs to Lok Sabha this year
Karnataka are now eligible to vote in the Lok Sabha elections, about 10 lakh of which are first time voters. Chief electoral officer Manoj Kumar Meena released the state's final electoral roll on Monday, in preparation for the Parliament polls a few months away.
“Efforts have been undertaken to ensure the enrolment of all eligible electors in the electoral rolls and to create error-free, robust electoral rolls across all assembly constituencies.
In case an eligible elector's name is not found, they are encouraged to enroll their name in the electoral roll promptly,” the Election Commission (EC) said.
There will be 58,834 polling stations across the state according to the final list during the Lok Sabha elections. According to the EC, among the 224 Legislative Assembly constituencies, Bengaluru South in Bengaluru Urban district has the highest number of electors at around 7.17 lakh.
Sringeri in Chikkamagaluru district has the lowest number of electors, with a count of 1.67 lakh.
Meena said there had been a constant improvement in the gender ratio that has gone up from 958 (women per 1,000 men) in the 2013 Assembly elections to 997 this year. “The gender ratio of general electors increased from 991 to 997 while transitioning from the draft rolls to the final rolls of 2024.
Furthermore, the gender ratio of young electors witnessed an increase from 818 to 856 during this period,” he said. According to the list released by the EC, women outnumber men in 17 out of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.
The Election Commission had released a draft electoral roll in October last year.
