Madurai district has 26.49 lakh voters
The Hindu
MADURAI
Madurai district has 26,49,793 voters, said Collector S. Aneesh Sekhar. He released the final electoral roll at the Collectorate on Thursday in the presence of officials and representatives of recognised political parties.
Madurai district has 10 Assembly constituencies: Madurai East, Madurai West, Madurai Central, Madurai South, Madurai North, Tirupparankundram, Tirumangalam, Usilampatti, Sholavandan and Melur. The total number of voters in the 10 constituencies are: 26,49,793 - 13,46,733 women and 13,02,834 men and 226 others.
Madurai East constituency has the maximum number of voters (3,28,270) and Sholavandan the least (2,18,072).
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