Aizawl, Oct 04: Mizoram has 8,51,895 voters, according to the final publication of the state electoral rolls released by the state Election department on Wednesday.
Female voters outnumbered their male counterparts by 25,956 votes. There are 4,38,925 women voters as against 4,12,969 male voters. The number of voters witnessed an increase of 83,714 voters as compared to the electoral roll used in the 2018 state assembly elections.
This electoral roll, published after completion of the second special revision, 2023 will be used for the coming election to the 40-member state legislature, a senior election department official said. The official, however, added that new voters can be enrolled even after the final publication.
Aizawl district, which has 12 assembly constituencies has the largest number of voters – 2,86,807 comprising 1,52,558 and 1,34,249 female and male voters respectively.
Aizawl district is followed by Lunglei district’s 1,00,136 voters in 7 assembly constituencies while Lawngtlai district’s 91,439 votes come third, having 3 assembly seats.
There are 4,973service voters including 89 women. At present, there are 1,276 polling stations across the state.
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Election department officials said that 6,239 names of Bru voters, who have permanently settled in Tripura, have been deleted during the special summary revision of electoral rolls.
The total number of Bru voters’ names deleted during the revision of voters’ lists and by undertaking corresponding deletion requests from the Tripura state election commission was 11,997 voters.
The pleas of the Tripura-based Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF) to the Election Commission of India not to delete around 3,500 Bru voters from Mizoram voters’ lists was not accepted by the central poll panel.
Deletion of Bru voters could only be undertaken after a quadrilateral agreement was signed between the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mizoram and Tripura state governments and different Bru bodies in the relief camps on January 16, 2020, in which it was agreed that the Bru community in Tripura relief camps who did not like to return to Mizoram are allowed to settle permanently in Tripura.
Several efforts to repatriate the Brus from Tripura to Mizoram failed and the Delhi agreement allowed them to settle over 32,000 Brus in Tripura and to be rolled into Tripura voters’ list.
