FINAL ELECTORAL ROLL OF J&K PUBLISHED WITH 772,000 NET RISE

The final electoral roll for Jammu & Kashmir was released on Friday with the net addition of around 800,000 names, completing an exercise experts consider the final step before assembly elections are announced in the Union territory.

The final electoral roll has a total of 8,359,771 electors — 4,291,687 men, 4,067,900 women, and 184 transgender people — joint chief electoral officer of Jammu & Kashmir, Anil Salgotra said.

“There has been a net increase of 772,872 electors in the final electoral roll, i.e. a 10.19% net increase of the registered electors over the draft roll,” he said.

The draft roll — which is the voter list used by the commission in the last assembly election — of around 7.6 million voters was published in September, after which election authorities started a special summary revision drive to add names.