Nashik: The Nashik saw a surge in enrollment of women voters during the voter registration exercise being carried out by the district election office since October 1, 2019. The total number of voters has increased by 53,404 in Nashik district, and a majority of the new voters were women, who outnumbered men by 2,072 as per the data released by the district election office before the upcoming electors’ summary revision drive shows that.
The 27,734 women have got themselves registered with the election office either for the first time on being eligible after turning 18 or they had missed out during the past exercises. The number of men who have registered their names with the department was 25,662. The 8 voters enrolled in the transgender or third gender category.
According to the officials, the Nashik district consist of 24 lakh men voters 21.9 lakh women voters and 35 transgender voters, the total number of electors in the district amounts to 45.9 lakh. The district election officials said, “First-time voters, in fact, make up a very high percentage of those who have enrolled their names.”
The highest number of voters are in the Nashik West assembly constituency (4.06 lakh), followed by Nashik East (3.5 lakh) and Malegaon Outer (3.5 lakh).Nashik West leads with the highest number of women voters (1.8 lakh) followed by Nashik East (1.7 lakh) and Malegaon Outer (1.6 lakh). Nashik West also has the highest number of men as voters (2.2 lakh). Malegaon Outer and then Nashik East, in each assembly constituency men account for around 1.8 lakh voters.
According to the government district election officials, the summary elector’s revision programme was carried out in October 2019 and was extended till March 2020. The list has been published recently after finalization. The special summary revision Programme for 2020 is to be announced in November.