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Business & Finance

Ratio of women voters increases

Published June 23, 2018 Updated June 23, 2018 09:00am

ISLAMABAD: The ratio of women voters has increased which has widened the gender gap between male and female voters to 12.65 million.

There were 86.25 million registered voters in the 2013 general elections — 56.4pc men and 43.6pc women

According to voter registration data released by the ECP in September 2015, ahead of local government polls, there were 93.07 million voters in the electoral rolls — 52.36 million men and 40.7 million women — a difference of 11.65 million.

According to the statistics of preliminary electoral rolls 2018, the total number of voters in Punjab stands at 59.74 million — 33.29 million male and 26.44 million female voters.

In Sindh, the number of voters is 22.06 million, including 12.27 million male and 9.79 million female voters.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the number of voters is 15.23 million — 8.69 million male and 6.54 million women voters. Balochistan has a total of 4.19 million voters out of which 2.42 million are male and 1.76 million female voters. The number of voters in Fata is 2.29 million, including 1.38 million male and 0.910 million female voters.

In federal capital, the total number of voters is 0.730 million, including 0.389 million male and 0.341 million female voters.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2018

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