Final voters list in Dakshina Kannada district to be published in Jan: Official

The final voters list in Dakshina Kannada district after the revision in the electoral rolls will be published on January 5 next year ahead of the assembly elections due in May, DK Deputy Commissioner M R Ravikumar said on Thursday.

Mangaluru: The final voters list in Dakshina Kannada district after the revision in the electoral rolls will be published on January 5 next year ahead of the assembly elections due in May, DK Deputy Commissioner M R Ravikumar said on Thursday. A total of 62,829 claims and applications have been received as part of the revision on electoral rolls from November 9 to December 7 in the district, he told reporters here.

As many as 16,065 applications have been sent for scrutiny. A total of 1,449 applications were rejected and 8,173 applications approved, he said.
The complete revision of voters list was held from August 4 to October 24. The revised draft of the list was published on November 9. The claims and applications were received from November 9 to December 8.

The special registration campaign was held on November 12, 20 and December 3 and 4. The rights and applications will be cleared by December 26 and the final voters list will be out on January 5, he said. There are 17,08,955 voters in the draft electoral rolls for 2023. The final voters list for the year 2022 had 17,53,328 voters. The final list of polling booths in 2022 was 1,861 as against 1,860 booths in the draft electoral rolls for 2023, the official said.

After the special summary revision of electoral rolls in 2022, 29,410 names have been added to the electoral rolls, while 73,783 names were deleted. A total of 21,537 names have been deleted due to deaths, the DC said. (PTI)