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Following the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls successful Tamil Nadu, the size of the electorate successful astir Assembly constituencies successful Chennai and its 3 neighbouring districts is larger than the votes polled during the 2021 Assembly and 2024 Parliamentary elections.
Only successful 4 constituencies, each successful the city, did the fig of votes polled successful 2021 transcend the revised spot of the electorate. The 4 seats were Villivakkam, R.K. Nagar, Perambur, and Anna Nagar, wherever the borderline of quality varies from 206 successful Perambur to 1,386 successful Villivakkam to 2,961 successful Anna Nagar to 8,671 successful R.K. Nagar.
A examination of the information of votes polled and the existing spot successful 37 Assembly constituencies falling nether the districts of Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, and Chengalpattu, isolated from Chennai throws up absorbing details. These 4 districts person seen a precise precocious grade of deletion of names from the electoral rolls. While examining the data, the information that during 2020 and 21, the State witnessed 2 waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing a ample fig of deaths, should besides beryllium considered.
On an average, astir 2 lakh persons had voted successful each constituency successful 2021 and 1.85 lakh successful 2024. The revised draught electoral rolls, published connected Friday (December 19) puts the elector size astatine astir 2.3 lakh.
Concern has been expressed by governmental parties successful general, peculiarly the ruling DMK’s allies successful particular, astir the level of deletions, whereas the AIADMK has contended that astir of the deleted entries beryllium to bogus voters. But, the wide representation of the voters’ spot does not bespeak immoderate discrepancy with respect to the electorate successful the 37 Assembly constituencies, adjacent though what has been released is lone the draught electoral roll.
