CHENNAI: Women voters are steadily inching towards outnumbering men in all Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. According to the draft electoral rolls released for the special summary revision, women voters have outnumbered men in 207 Assembly constituencies and in the rest, they will be on the top in a few years, going by the gap between both genders.
As per the poll rolls, men outnumber women only in the following 27 constituencies: Maduravoyal, Harbour, Veppanahalli, Hosur, Thalli, Palacodu, Pennagaram, Dharmapuri, Pappirettipatti, Harur, Tirukoyilur, Omalur, Mettur, Edappadi, Sankari, Veerapandi, Coimbatore North, Neyveli, Gandarvakottai, Usilampatti, Colachel, Padmanabhapuram, Killiyoor, Tiruppur North, Ulundurpettai, Rishivandhiyam and Sholinganallur.
The number of women voters in Tamil Nadu has continued to inch towards fully outnumbering men for the past decade during every summary revision of the electoral roll. The draft roll data also reveals that, of the 39 Lok Sabha constituencies, women have outnumbered men in 36, except for Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri and Kallakurichi.
In the 2014 LS elections, women voters exceeded men in Tamil Nadu for the first time, by a difference of 3,237. From then on, women have been taking the upper hand, and in every summary revision and other special drives of the Election Commission, women have been inching towards bridging the gap and exceeding men.
As of Tuesday, the total number of voters in Tamil Nadu stands at 6.27 crore and of them, 3.19 crore are women and 3.07 crore are men.