ISLAMABAD – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesdaypublished the final electoral rolls ahead of General Elections 2018.
According to the rolls, 105.96 million voters will be able to cast theirvote in the upcoming elections. Of these, 59.22m are male and 46.73m arefemales, with the gender gap between male and female rising to around 12.5m.
According to the figures, 55.9 per cent of the registered voters inPakistan are males while only 44.1pc are females.
The numbers are approximately 23 per cent higher than the figures for the2013 elections when the total number of voters stood at 86.19m.
Punjab tops the list with the largest number of voters with a total of60.67m voters (23pc increase from 2013), of which 33.68m are male and26.99m are female. A total of 22.39m voters (18pc increase over 2013) areregistered in Sindh, according to the figures proved by the ECP, of which12.44m are male and 9.95m are female.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the third largest province of the country, is home to15.32m registered voters (25pc higher than 2013) including 8.71m male and6.61m female voters. Balochistan has a total of 4.3m registered voters —29pc more than 2013 — including 2.49m male and 1.81m female voters.
In the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), 2.51m voters would beable to exercise their right of voting while 0.77m are registered with theECP from the capital territory.
The publishing of electoral rolls comes as the commission awaitspresident’s final decision on the exact dates of the elections and a namefor the caretaker prime minister.