Mizoram has over 8.51 lakh voters: State Election Commission

The Mizoram State Election Commission on Wednesday released the final electoral roll in respect of 40 Assembly Constituencies and there are 8,51,895 voters including over 4. 38 lakh female voters and 4.11 lakh male voters.

Female voters outnumber their male counterparts by 25,956.

As per the rolls published by the state election department, out of 8,51,895 electorates, 4,12,969 are males and 4,38,925 females.

The number of voters increase by 83,714 as compared to the electoral roll used in 2018 state assembly elections.

There is one third gender voter registered in south Mizoram’s Lunglei district.

Aizawl district with 12 assembly constituencies has the highest number of voters at 2,86,807 followed by south Mizoram’s Lunglei district with 7 assembly constituencies at 1,00,136 and Lawngtlai at 91,439 votes with 3 assembly seats.

There are 4,973 service voters, including 89 females in the state, official added.

At present, there are 1,276 polling stations across the state.

Election department officials further said that 6,239 Bru voters have been deleted from Mizoram’s voter list. The Bru voters’ names have been deleted from the State voter list due to their settlement in Tripura following the agreement in 2020, they said.

The total number of Bru voters’ names deleted during the revision of voters’ lists and by undertaking corresponding deletion requests from 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 been rolled in Tripura voters’ lists.

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 said that new voters can be enrolled even after the final publication of the voters list.

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