Highest exclusion in Bihar draft roll: Women, Muslim-dominant districts

Women make up 55% of voters who are excluded from Bihar’s draft voter list after the Special Intensive Revision, shows a Scroll analysis of data published by the Election Commission of India on August 1.

The data also shows that five of the state’s 10 districts with the largest share of Muslim population have the highest number of excluded voters.

The draft list includes voters who submitted their enumeration forms to the poll body between June 24 and July 26. They will now have to produce proof of citizenship to make it to the final list that will be published on September 30.

At 15.1%, Gopalganj district in western Bihar saw the highest rate of exclusion in the state. The voter list in the district's Gopalganj assembly constituency shrunk by 18.25% – also the highest in the state.

The draft roll has removed nearly 65.6 lakh voters. Of them, 22.3 lakh were dead, 36.3 lakh had permanently moved...

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