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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 9.7 crore new voters added to electoral rolls in last five years -Bharti Jain

9.7 crore new voters added to electoral rolls in last five years -Bharti Jain

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published Published on Feb 6, 2014   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2014
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: The country has added 9.7 crore voters since the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, which translates into a 13.5% rise, but the state-wise rolls for 2014 finalized on January 31 show that Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal registered the highest growth of voters in percentage terms.

Beating the national average by a huge margin, the electorate in Tamil Nadu has swelled by 29.3%, in Haryana by 28%, in Madhya Pradesh by 25% and in West Bengal by almost 19%.

Interestingly, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh had shown a decline in voters of around 11.9%, 1.9% and 0.7% respectively between the 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Voters in West Bengal grew between 2004 and 2009, though only by 9.6% compared to 19% between 2009 and 2014.

Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state, registered the largest increase in electorate in absolute terms between 2009 and 2014. The politically crucial state, which accounts for 80 Lok Sabha seats, added 1.8 crore voters to its rolls in the last five years, compared to around 60 lakh voters between 2004 and 2009. After UP (13.44 crore electors), Maharashtra added the largest number of voters (7.9 crore), followed by West Bengal (6.25 crore), Andhra Pradesh (6.24 crore) and Bihar (6.21 crore).

The big states that registered double-digit growth in the size of their electorate since the 2009 Lok Sabha polls are Uttar Pradesh (15.5%), Uttarakhand (15.3%), Rajasthan (14.2%), Bihar (13.9%), Chhattisgarh (13%) and Punjab (11.8%). Among the smaller states, Meghalaya showed a 21% rise in the number of voters, followed by Puducherry (15.8%) and Tripura (14.4%). The electorate in Union Territories also grew, with Chandigarh adding 11.5% voters since 2009 and Dadra and Nagar Haveli 25%.

Delhi registered a 9% increase in its electorate since 2009, with the 2014 rolls, to be used for the coming general election, showing 1.21 crore voters.

The Election Commission attributed the "massive" addition of 9.7 crore voters in the country's rolls over the last five years, compared to the 4.6 crore rise between 2004 and 2009, to its voter awareness initiatives like SVEEP aimed at encouraging young and women voters to register themselves, as well as its drive to clean up the rolls of bogus voters.

Incidentally, the figures of the electorate that will choose the next dispensation at the Centre are only provisional, as the revision of 2014 rolls will continue right up to the close of nomination.


The Times of India, 6 February, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/9-7-crore-new-voters-added-to-electoral-rolls-in-last-five-years/articleshow/29918838.cms


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