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Number of women voters is surging across the country
Polity
News
The latest enrolment data from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu shows that the gap between female and male voter base has narrowed considerably.
Important facts
- There is a broader national trend of improved voter sex ratios (number of female voters per 1000 male voters)
- In the 2014 polls, Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram & Puducherry already had more women in the electorate than men.
For the current electorate, Tamil Nadu also has more female voters than male- 2.98 crore are women and 2.92 crore are men. - Women voters in Maharashtra have increased by 13 lakh. Thus the voter sex ratio stands at
911 against 905 in 2014.
