Noida: A total of 22,493 first-time voters in the 18-19 age group will cast their ballots in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Gautam Budh Nagar seat compared to 18,000 in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which accounts for a 25% increase. There were 6,913 first-time voters in the state elections last year.
Moreover, the number of female voters for every 1,000 male voters has now increased to 814 from 804 in the 2022 state polls.UP election commissioner Navdeep Rinwa revealed the numbers on Sunday during a review meeting with district election officers about the preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The electoral rolls revised between October 27 and December 9 this year will be published in January 2024.
The GB Nagar Lok Sabha seat constitutes five assembly seats — Noida, Dadri and Jewar in Gautam Budh Nagar and Khurja and Sikandrabad in Bulandshahr.
Saying the commission has received several complaints about voter identification cards on the National Grievance Service Portal, Rinwa directed the Noida administration to appoint a nodal officer to execute the work smoothly. The officials received instructions to rectify the electoral rolls and ensure that voters who have died, have shifted or whose names appear twice get removed from the electoral rolls. Rinwa also stressed that the voter identity card printing and dispatch takes two to three months.
He also directed the booth level officers to inspect booths in their areas and provide assured minimum facilities at each. To the extent possible, every assembly constituency should have one polling station managed by women officials. In such polling stations, all election staff, including police and security personnel, should preferably be women. The booths should also have facilities like wheelchairs and ramps for persons with disability.
The district administration has decided to set up polling booths in the clubhouses of 38 housing societies — a move to take voting virtually to the doorstep of a large chunk of the population.
Moreover, the number of female voters for every 1,000 male voters has now increased to 814 from 804 in the 2022 state polls.UP election commissioner Navdeep Rinwa revealed the numbers on Sunday during a review meeting with district election officers about the preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The electoral rolls revised between October 27 and December 9 this year will be published in January 2024.
The GB Nagar Lok Sabha seat constitutes five assembly seats — Noida, Dadri and Jewar in Gautam Budh Nagar and Khurja and Sikandrabad in Bulandshahr.
Saying the commission has received several complaints about voter identification cards on the National Grievance Service Portal, Rinwa directed the Noida administration to appoint a nodal officer to execute the work smoothly. The officials received instructions to rectify the electoral rolls and ensure that voters who have died, have shifted or whose names appear twice get removed from the electoral rolls. Rinwa also stressed that the voter identity card printing and dispatch takes two to three months.
He also directed the booth level officers to inspect booths in their areas and provide assured minimum facilities at each. To the extent possible, every assembly constituency should have one polling station managed by women officials. In such polling stations, all election staff, including police and security personnel, should preferably be women. The booths should also have facilities like wheelchairs and ramps for persons with disability.
The district administration has decided to set up polling booths in the clubhouses of 38 housing societies — a move to take voting virtually to the doorstep of a large chunk of the population.