The number of registered women voters in Bihar has fallen below their share of population after the special intensive revision of voter lists by the Election Commission, shows Scroll ’s analysis of final voter lists published on September 30.

The fall is acute in constituencies won by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) in the 2020 Assembly elections.

Nitish Kumar’s support among women voters is believed to be one of the reasons for the National Democratic Alliance’s electoral success in the 2020 elections.

The alliance, which is led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the JD(U), won 125 of the 243 seats.

The exclusion of women is evident in the gender ratio of the electorate, which measures the number of women for every thousand men among registered voters.

In January

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