New voters now 80.73 lakh

STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The Election Commission yesterday announced the voter list in which 80.73 lakh new voters were included.

The voter list was published by Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal after a rally marking national voters day.

This concludes the final door-to-door voter enrolment campaign of the EC before the next parliamentary polls. The EC enumerators went to the voters and potential voters between May and November last year to collect their information.

Among the new voters, 41,35,067 are men and 39,38,109 are women and 383 are hijras.