Wednesday 18 January 2017

Fact Sheet on Punjab Assembly Elections 2017

In Punjab, as per information provided by the Chief Electoral Officer, there are two Recognized State parties viz., Shiromani Akali Dal (SADand the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Smallest &Largest Constituency by Area &Electorate:
Among the Assembly Constituencies (AC), by area, the smallest is 61-Ludhiana Central and the largest one is 55-Dakha.By size of the Electorate, the smallest is 26-BholathAC with 1,28,761 electors and the largest being 66-GillAC with 2,37,399 electors.Further, the size-wise composition of the 117 electorates is shown below:

Size of Electorate

Number of Assembly Constituencies

<100000
NIL
100000 150000
17
150000 200000
91
> 20000
9
Total
117

Theelectors who have received the Electoral Photo ID Card (EPICare further categorized by sex which, as the charts show, are fairly evenly constituted by Males and Females. Further, there are 380electors reported from the ‘Third Gender’ in the electorate and there are a total of281 NRI voters and 1,50,564 voters from the services.


Age and Sex-wise Composition of Electorate:

Age
Male
Female
Third Gender
Total
18-25 years
1744922
1156960
122
2902004
25-40
4038177
3597854
164
7636195
40-60
3266641
3146337
69
6413047
>60
1390570
1408123
25
2798718
Total
10440310
9309274
380
19749964

The following is a graphical representation of demographic statistics of the electorate based on different age groups among males and femalesThere are a total of 380 electors documented from the ‘Third Gender’.




Courtesy: pib.nic.in

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