Lucknow, Feb. 19 -- After the draft voter list was published on January 6 under the Special Intensive Revision process in the state, 54.40 lakh (5.44 million) people have submitted Form 6 for inclusion in the final voter list, with women submitting 27.20 lakh (2.72 million) such forms and men 27.19 lakh (2.719 million), Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa said on Wednesday.

The third gender count is 222, he added.

Applications by a large number of women may improve the voter gender ratio, which dropped to 824 women voters per 1000 male voters in the draft voter list from 877 in the 2025 voter list, the CEO said.

The enumeration phase of the SIR process saw the deletion of names of 15.5 million women voters and 13....