“The number of total voters now stands at 10,98,19,112 as 69,71,470 new voters were included in the electoral roll following the voter updating programme that started last year,” said Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda on Monday afternoon.
The CEC placed this statistics at a discussion arranged at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city marking the National Voters’ Day 2020.
Out of the total voters, 5,54,82,530 are man, 5,43,36,222 woman and 360 transgender.
The EC, for the first time, disclosed the number of transgender voters collecting their data with their own identities during the updating exercise.
Besides, Director General of the National Identity Registration Wing of EC Brig Gen Saidul Islam made a presentation over the voter updating programme.
In the presentation, he said 13,92,440 voters were removed from the voter lists on several grounds particularly death and dual enrolment reasons in 2019.
In April last year, the voter updating programme started across the country to enroll the Bangladeshi nationals born on and before January 1, 2002 in the electoral roll.
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq addressed the function as the chief guest.
Later, the Law minister and the CEC handed over smart national identity cards to some fresh voters enrolled during the last update campaign.
On January 20 last, the Election Commission published the draft updated electoral rolls.