Female Voters Outnumber Males in Odisha’s 4 LS Seats Going to Polls on May 13

Bhubaneswar: The number of female voters in the poll-bound four Lok Sabha seats is more than the male voters.

Elections to Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Berhampur parliamentary seats and 28 Assembly constituencies under them will be held on May 13, said state Election Officer Nikunj Bihari Dhal during a presser on Thursday.

Dhal informed that the number of women voters is high in the four parliamentary constituencies where polling will be held on May 13. A total of 6,284,649 voters will exercise their franchise on that day.

Dhal said, “Out of the total 62, 84, 649 electors in the four LS seats, the number of female voters is 31, 87, 771, and the number of male voters is 30, 96, 243. The number of transgender voters is 635. The gender ratio in these four parliamentary constituencies is 999 female voters per 1,000 male voters. In Nabarangpur, it is 1,039 per one thousand male voters while it is 996 in Berhampur and 1,095 in Koraput.”

As many as 2.78 per cent and 23.34 per cent of voters of these four Parliamentary constituencies are in 18-19 and 20-29 years age group respectively.

Polling will take place in as many as 7, 289 stations across these four Lok Sabha seats. As many as 14 auxiliary polling stations have also been set up at different places where more than 1500 voters are available to cast their votes, he further said.

In Odisha there are a total of 3.66 crore voters. Among those, there are 1.70 crore male voters and 1.66 lakh female voters. The gender ration of the State voters is 974 male voters per 1000 female voters. There are 8.69 lakh voters under 18-19 years of age in Odisha, and 1.56 PWD voters in the State.

Around 70.40 lakh voters under 20-29 years of age will exercise their franchise in Odisha this time. Their number is around 21 per cent of the total voters, Dhal said.