Maharashtra has 9 crore voters according to the final electoral roll published Thursday, ahead of the spate of civic polls expected in state. It is 10.5 lakh lower than in January 2022, but has shown recovery of 4.4 lakh since November 2022, when the last draft was published.
Officials say the number of voters has reduced over the past year due to multiple factors, including Migration and a major purging of duplicate entries. “We examined 40 lakh duplicate entries, of which 16 lakh were deleted.
Of the total voters, 4.7 crore are men, 4.3 crore Women and 4,735 voters are transgender. Nearly 6.7 lakh are people with disabilities. Mumbai has 96.3 lakh voters, of which 71.8 lakh are in the suburbs and 24.4 lakh in the island city.
In the latest state electoral roll published, the 30-39 year age category has the highest number of voters accounting for 2 crore while the 40-49 category follows close behind with 1.9 crore. However, the 18-19 year age group accounts for the lowest number of voters, with just 6.7 lakh, the data shows.
In the 20-29 year age group, the number of voters were also much below the Population of the cohort, the data showed. While 20-29-year-olds account for 18% of the state’s population, the number of registered voters account for 12.8% of the population. This means 30% of the 20-29 year age group have not registered to vote.