KATHMANDU: The Election Commission (EC) has added 187,886 voters to the electoral roll, bringing the total number of registered voters to 18,903,689, according to the updated list published ahead of the March 5 House of Representatives elections.
According to the commission, the updated voter roll as of August 31 includes 9,769,825 men, 9,321,336 women and 214 voters registered under the ‘other’ category.
In a press statement issued on Friday, the EC said it had removed 158,264 names from the voter roll. The deleted entries included 45,322 deceased voters, as well as duplicate registrations and the names of people who had renounced their citizenship or had their citizenship revoked.
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