Chief electoral officer Vikas Raj on Thursday released final electoral list for 119 assembly constituences, pegging the total voters in the state at 2.99 crore.
Addressing reporters at his chambers here, Vikas Raj said that 6.8 lakh new voters have been added to the list while 2.7 lakh names have been deleted. The voters numbers drop from 3 crore in draft rolls announced in January 2022 owing to continous updation process that saw both additions and deletions for various reasons.
He said the number of young voters in the age group of 18-19 had gone up to 2.7 lakh. Also, a total of 2,808 people from primitive vulnerable tribal groups have been enrolled during the summary revision of electoral rolls. The third gender votes stood at 1,951.