Women account for 60% of new electors enrolled in the past six months in Himachal Pradesh, with young women aged between 18 and 29 years making up 78% of that number, leading to an improvement in the state’s electors’ gender ratio, official data show.

A total of 46,593 new electors were added since June, of which female electors were 27,721 and males 18,872. A total of 21,718 women aged 18 to 29 years were added — or 78% of the new women electors and 47% of the overall new enrolment.

Through a special drive that was launched by the Himachal Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Nandita Gupta’s office in June, the electors’ gender ratio increased from 981 on June 30 to 983 as on December 12. This means that there are now two more women per 1,000 men in the electoral rolls. While the state

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