Draft roll after SSR in Keralam has 2.73 crore voters, 1.40 crore of them women

Keralam CEO D Sajith Babu on Thursday said the draft electoral roll prepared after the SSR in the state contains 2.73 crore eligible voters.
Keralam CEO D Sajith Babu
Keralam CEO D Sajith Babu
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Thiruvananthapuram | Keralam CEO D Sajith Babu on Thursday said the draft electoral roll prepared after the SSR in the state contains 2.73 crore eligible voters.

The Special Summary Revision of the electoral roll commenced on October 15 with the aim of enrolling all eligible voters aged 18 and above, including those whose names were missing from the list, and correcting errors in registration details.

At the time the SSR began, the chief electoral officer had said that the voter count, frozen on October 27, 2025, before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) commenced, stood at 2,78,50,855 in Keralam.

The draft electoral roll published after the SIR contained 2,54,42,352 voters, while the final roll published following the exercise had 2,69,53,644 names.

The electoral roll published ahead of the previous Assembly election had 2,71,42,952 voters, he said.

The draft electoral roll published after the latest SSR contains 2,73,60,254 names, Babu said.

Of the total voters, 1,40,38,718 are women, 1,33,21,267 are men and 269 belong to the third gender, he said in a statement.

The list includes 2,70,675 voters in the 18-19 age group and 44,06,424 in the 20-29 age group. The number of expatriate voters stands at 2,45,883, the statement said.

The draft electoral roll is available at the offices of the concerned Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), Collectorates and Booth Level Officers (BLOs), as well as on the website of the CEO, it said.

The draft roll was handed over to national and recognised state political parties by the respective EROs, it added.

Babu said claims and objections regarding the electoral roll could be submitted between November 12 and December 11, 2026, and urged people in the state to make use of the opportunity.