Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Oct 28: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Karnataka has been completed, and the final electoral roll was released on Tuesday.

Karnataka chief electoral officer (CEO) Anbukumar addressed a press conference and shared the details. As of October 27, the state has a total of 4,54,55,689 voters. Of these, 2,24,40,493 are men and 2,29,12,355 are women. The state also has 2,841 third-gender voters.

According to the chief electoral officer, a total of 99,76,625 names were deleted from the previous electoral roll during the process of preparing the final list, with ineligible and duplicate entries being modified or removed.

Before the commencement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, Karnataka had 5,54,32,814 voters. When the draft electoral roll was published in August 2016, the state had 4,46,35,975 voters.

The number of polling stations has also increased by 390. Karnataka currently has a total of 41,888 polling stations.