Chandigarh, Oct. 13 -- After the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in poll-bound Punjab, the Election Commission on Monday published the final electoral rolls for the state, with 2.01 crore eligible voters. These include 1.03 crore male voters, 97 lakh female voters, and 506 third-gender voters.

The state's voter count shrunk by 6.3%, or 13.60 lakh voters, from 2.14 crore, the total number of voters at the start of the nearly four-month-long electoral roll clean-up exercise launched in June this year, after taking into account the addition of new voters as well as the deletion of ineligible voters.

As many as 7,97,263 new voters have been added after the removal of 20,66,608 from the draft rolls. The names of voters, who were fo...