Imphal: Women voters continued to outnumber their male counterparts in Manipur’s final electoral rolls, published on Sunday following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across the state, officials said.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Arun Kumar Sinha said that with July 1, 2026, as the qualifying date, Manipur has a total of 19,60,620 registered voters, comprising 10,06,962 women, 9,53,350 men, and 308 third-gender electors.
The gender ratio of 1,056 in the final electoral rolls is significantly higher than the national average, the CEO said.
He said that a total of 56,871 electors have been included and a total of 30,650 voters have been deleted from the draft electoral rolls.
Sinha said that the final electoral rolls of all 60 Assembly Constituencies of Manipur, comprising valley and hill regions, were published on Sunday by the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) concerned.
He said that the draft electoral rolls were published on July 5 with a total of 19,34,399 electors, including 9,93,660 female voters. A total of 1,58,677 electors whose Enumeration Forms were not received were excluded from the draft electoral rolls. Probable causes of not submitting Enumeration Forms included absent (34,740), shifted (72,473), death (43,000), duplicate (7,394) and other reasons (1,070).
The CEO said that a total of 96,985 claims and objections were filed during the claim and objection period from July 5 to August 4. A total of 60 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and 84 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs) scrutinised these during the stipulated period.
Coordination meetings were held by all 2,956 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) with their respective Booth Level Agents (BLAs) to ensure thorough field verification of absent, shifted, deceased and duplicate electors. Help desks were set up at the offices of the Chief Electoral Officer and all 16 District Election Officers (DEOs) to assist electors in filling out the Enumeration Forms. He said the successful completion of SIR and publication of final electoral rolls were the result of coordinated efforts by the District Election Officers (District Magistrates or Deputy Commissioners and Collectors) of all 16 districts, 60 EROs, 84 AEROs, 317 BLO Supervisors and 2,956 BLOs deployed across 2,956 polling stations, with support from volunteers.
CEO Sinha also said that with the creation of 85 new polling stations, the total number of polling stations in the state has increased to 3,041.
(IANS)
