Aizawl: Mizoram’s electoral roll underwent a significant reshuffle during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), with 78,442 names deleted and 39,243 new electors added, taking the state’s final voter count to 8.35 lakh, a senior official said on Monday.

The final roll, published on Monday after the completion of the SIR exercise, also recorded Mizoram’s first third-gender elector, alongside 4 lakh male and 4.32 lakh female voters, according to state Chief Electoral Officer Garima Gupta.

The SIR was launched across all districts of Mizoram on May 20 alongside 15 states and two Union Territories covered in the third phase of the nationwide revision exercise.

Before the SIR, the state had 8.75 lakh registered electors, all of whom were provided Enumeration Forms, Garima said.

Of these, 8,28,906 forms were collected, while 46,162 remained uncollected and the voters’ names were subsequently deleted, she said.

“The draft electoral roll published on July 4 contained 8,28,906 electors. During the claims and objections period, which ended on 2 September, 32,280 more names were removed while 39,243 voters were added, resulting in a net increase of 6,963 electors or 0.84 per cent from the draft roll in the final roll,” Gupta told a news conference here.

She said that the final roll contained 8,35,869 electors, of which female voters, tagged at 4,32,689, outnumbered their male counterparts, numbering 4,03,179.

The state also registered its first third-gender voter from Siaha district in the southern part of the state, she said.

According to the final roll, Aizawl district has the highest number of voters at 2.78 lakh, followed by south Mizoram’s Lunglei district – 97,172 and Lawngtlai district – 90,715, while Hnahthial district, created in 2019, has the least number of voters at 15,522, the CEO said.

Among the constituencies, Tuichawng Assembly constituency in Lawngtlai district has the highest number of electors at 37,236, while West Tuipui in Lunglei district has the lowest at 14,667, she said.

Aizawl North-I recorded the largest increase, gaining 1,394 electors, while West Tuipui in Lunglei district witnessed the steepest decline, losing 1,800 voters from its draft-roll strength, Gupta said.

Aizawl North-II recorded the highest sex ratio, with 1,221 female electors for every 1,000 male electors, while West Tuipui recorded the lowest at 848 females per 1,000 males.

According to Gupta, the final roll was originally scheduled to be published on September 6 but was released on Monday as the scheduled date fell on a Sunday.

She claimed that the SIR exercise was one of the smoothest such exercises in the country and thanked political parties, civil societies, churches, community leaders and media for their cooperation during the 3-month-long exercise.

She also commended election officials for their role in completing the SIR exercise.