Mizoram assembly polls: Women voters’ turn out higher than men

Guwahati: In the recently concluded assembly polls in Mizoram, women voters outnumbered male in votes polled. Around1.21 per cent more women voters exercised their franchise than their men counterparts.

A senior election official said that in Tuesday’s Mizoram Assembly elections, around 80.66 per cent (6,87,334) of the total of 8.57 lakh voters exercised their franchise to decide the electoral fate of 174 candidates, including 16 women.

Female voters’ turnout was 81.25 percent while 80.04 percent male voters cast their votes across the mountainous state.

Women are over 51.22 per cent of the total 8,57,063-strong electorate in Mizoram’s latest voters’ list.
In all 4,39,026 women voters outnumbered the male electorate of 4,13,062 in the electoral rolls, which were published on October 4.

Of the eleven districts in Mizoram, only in the minority community of Mamit district is the number of male voters (32,723) higher than their female (32,064) counterparts.