BENGALURU: The stage is set for the Assembly polls in the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the UTs publishing the final electoral roll of J&K on Monday that showed an addition of more than 2.31 lakh voters. Out of the 86.93 lakh voters, 42.58 lakh are females and 44.35 lakh males, with more than 2.31 lakh voters added to the J&K’s final electoral rolls. A statement issued by the office of the CEO said that the final electoral rolls have been published in all polling stations, offices of Electoral Registration Officers, and District Election Officers and hosted on the website of the CEO.The release of the final electoral roll of J&K will pave the way for holding of various polls in the UT. Around 86,000 names have been deleted from the previous list because of death, shifting or other reasons besides correction in details of 1.45 lakh electors during the process, said sources. As per final roll issued, the elector population ratio has improved from 0.59 to 0.60 and gender ratio from 924 to 954. The last assembly polls were held in J&K in November-December, 2014.
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