AIZAWL: Female voters have edged past their male counterparts by 10,120 votes in the latest electoral roll for Mizoram state assembly elections which has recorded 12,454 new voters, a 1.94 per cent increase from the electoral roll of 2011.
Now, the total number of voters in Mizoram is 6,53,208 which accounted for 58.96 per cent of the total population of a little more than ten lakhs according to the census 2011. As many as 3,31,664 voters are female, putting the sex ratio in the electorate at 1,031, as against 975 in the census 2011.
In the last state assembly elections in December 2008, as many as 3,08,884 of the total 6,11,124 voters in the eight districts of Mizoram were female.
Women had also outnumbered men by 3,816 votes during the 2003 assembly polls. There are 3,418 service voters in Mizoram.
With some addition, there are now 1,031 polling stations across Mizoram. (UNI)