Bhubaneswar: Odisha has 3,29,83,643 total electors as per the Final Electoral Rolls, 2022 which was published on Wednesday after special summary revision of photo electoral rolls with qualifying date of January 1, 2022.
Chief electoral officer, Odisha, Sushil Kumar Lohani, in a release, said the total electorate includes 1,67,96,603 male voters, 1,61,83,835 women and 3025 electors belong to Third Gender category. Total electors in the Final Electoral Rolls of 2021 was 3,25,52,202.
The number of electors in age group of 18-19 has increased from 4,10,076 in 2021 to 5,23,774 in the Final Electoral Rolls, 2022.
The final electoral rolls has been uploaded in the website of CEO Odisha w.w.w.ceoorissa.nic.in. One can view the status of electoral entries by visiting “view Final Electoral Rolls, 2022” in the webpage. It has been published in offices of all 58 EROs-cum-Sub-Collectors and 37,606 polling stations of the state, Lohani said in a release.
Of total 18,65,570 claims and objections received during the revision, 12,02,101 (64.44%) were received online and 6,63,469 (35.56%) offline. While 9,50,789 new electors have been enrolled in the electoral rolls, 3,82,601 names have been deleted and records of 3,82,601 electors corrected during the revision.
Lohani further said there has been qualitative improvement in the electoral rolls after Special Summary Revision, 2022. Citing an example, he said the number of non-photo electors, which was earlier 3,38,458, has come down to 84,694. Similarly, gender ratio of the electors has increased from 958 to 964.
The highlight of Special Summary Revision, 2022 is the substantial increase in receipt of online applications from 7% in 2021 revision to 66.44% during the current revision.
Lohani also said revision of electoral roll is an on-going process and a voter can apply for addition, deletion or correction of his/her name in the electoral roll throughout the year. The application can be filed through voter helpline mobile app www.nvsp.in portal in the online mode or by contacting concerned booth level officers.
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