District Collector N. Prasanth will summon a meeting of all political parties shortly following complaints from different quarters on the recently published voters’ list in the district.
He announced this at a meeting of the district and taluk-level officials associated with the election duties on Wednesday. Officials have a responsibility to make the electorate list transparent while including new names or exempting any voters, Mr. Prasanth said.
This time all polling booths in the district would be made physically challenged-friendly with the introduction of ramps, he said.
Deputy Collector ( Elections) P.K. Prabhavati and Deputy Tasildhars ( Elections) of Kozhikode, Koyilandy, Vadakara and Thamarassery took part in the meeting.
Nearly 1, 27,930 new voters have newly enrolled in Kozhikode district since the Lok Sabha elections in April 2014. The draft voter’s list was prepared for 13 Assembly segments before the upcoming polls.
Of this 67,831 were women and the remaining 60,099 men voters.
Increase
Seven Assembly segments saw an increase of 10,000 new voters each. Kunnamangalam assembly has the highest increase of voters – 14,847. The rest were Beypore (11,757); Elathur (11,551); Koduvally (11, 200); Koyilandy (11,029); Thiruvambadi (10,568) and Balussery (10,405).
Vadakara constituency showed the least increase in voters with 6,240 new enrolments.
The others were Kuttiyadi (7,030); Kozhikode South (7,075); Kozhikode North (8,034); Perambra (8,642) and Nadapuram (9,552).
The increase in voters has been attributed to many factors such as mainstream political parties campaigning for the enrolment of new voters. Besides, the Election Commission has also been seeking new voters to enrol their names before the Assembly polls.
The total voters in the district during the Lok Sabha polls were 21,83,474. Of this, female voters were 11,31,639 and male, 10,51, 835.
The draft voter’s list for 2016 Assembly polls has 23,11,404 voters with female voters (11,99, 470) and male voters (11, 11,934).
As per the draft electorate list, Kunnamangalam assembly segment also has the highest number of voters (total: 2,05,572) while Kozhikode South has the least (total: 1,45,743. male: 70,128 and female: 75,615).
This time all polling booths would be made physically challenged-friendly with introduction of ramps
