Future Young Voters in the Upcoming Vote

The keys to power in the hands of 2.5 million new voters

Young voters of the country will be the main factor in the next eleventh parliamentary elections. Election analysts believe that the number of young voters in the voter list is the key to power in the coming days since the 9th parliamentary elections. They say that those who have become new voters since the 9th Parliament, they will play a key role in the country's leadership elections in the coming days. The young people will look forward to the future of Bangladesh, according to which the leadership will choose.   

In the analysis of voting data of previous parliamentary elections, it is seen that Awami League got 1 crore 23 lakh 57 thousand 378 votes in the tenth parliamentary elections (without 153 seats elected without contest). Jatiya Party got 11 lakh 99 thousand 727 votes. In the ninth parliament elections, the ruling Awami League got 3 crore 36 lakh 34 thousand and 629 votes. And BNP got 27 million 57 thousand 100 votes. In the eighth parliamentary elections, BNP got 28 million 33 thousand 978 votes. The Awami League got 22 million and 65 thousand 516 votes. As such, the number of voters in the voter list from the 9th to the number of 35 million 12 thousand 997 young voters will be the factor of going to power.

Those young people who can vote in the future, they will go to power in the future. In the end of December 2014, the eleventh parliamentary elections will be finalized in October for the day of voting. The schedule may be in mid-November. The eleventh parliamentary elections will be held from October 30 to January 28, 2019.

Voter update data analysis shows that from the 9th parliamentary elections to 2018, there will be a total number of voters in the country (potentially) more than 10.64 million. As per the ruling Awami League government two years ago, two new voters are 2, 35, 12, 997 people. Of these, there are 1 crore 8 lakh 84 thousand 146 people in the 27 year old voters. And there are 8,868,833 people voters in 21/22 years. And the new 18 year old voter is 46 lakh. However, after the final voter list is published on January 31, the final number of voters of the country will be available.

Number of voters in Eleventh Parliament: The number of dead voters in this year's update has been dropped from the voters list. Over 15 lakh 27 thousand dead people have been collected for updating the update. After the introduction of the voter list with photograph in 2008, it is a record of the number of dead voters in the update. In the year 2015, the maximum number of 7 lakh dead voters was collected. Considering the annual mortality rates against the country's 16 million population, 12 to 15 lakh people are excluded from the voters list. After the start of the smartcard delivery, officials said the numbers have increased as the number of initiatives in identifying dead voters has increased.

EC officials said, 33 lakh 28 thousand 709 new voters have been registered in the update. Of these 16.87 thousand women voters; And there are more than 16 lakh 41 thousand male voters. Now more than 33 lakh voters are registered, but in the new 43 lakh new voters will be added to the list, said EC acting secretary Helaluddin Ahmad. He said, out of the 33 lakh 28 thousand registered people in the update, information was collected from 9.62 billion people aged 15 years in 2015; They will automatically join the voter list on January 1.

As per the updated schedule, dead voters will be excluded from existing list from November 25 to December 15. On December 18, the draft voter will be provided on the print job for the list. After the publication of the draft voter list on January 2, the commission will publish the final voter list on Jan 31 after the claim, objection and settlement. The Secretary said that on Jan 1, 2018, the voters who are 18 years of age or older have been updated. There are currently 10 million 18 lakh voters in the country, more than 15 lakh 27 thousand voters dead; It will add 43 million new voters. As of January 2012, the number of voters in the country will be more than 10.44 million.

In the year 2016, the voter stood around 10 crore: On Jan 31, 2016, the Election Commission published the voter list, according to the number of voters in the country, about 44 million 33 thousand newly voters joined 9.59 million in January. The ratio of females to men and women is almost equal. As it can be seen, the total number of voters in the country is 98 million 98 thousand 553. Males constitute 5 million 3 lakh 20 thousand 362 (50.37%). Women 4 million 95 lakh 78 thousand 191 (49.63) Earlier, the voters were 9 crore 62 lakh 1 thousand 497 people. In this update, during the update of 2015, 7 lakh 35 thousand 871 dead voters were excluded from the list.

New voters - Women are more than men: In the last 10 years, for the first time in the voter list update, the election commission received more from the women than the men. According to the update, the number of women voters among the registered voters is 77 thousand 393 more, the Election Commission said. According to the information received from the field stage, there are 12 lakh 61 thousand 835 male voters and 13 lakh 39 thousand 228 female voters. In the last update, the number of female voters is ahead, but the number of voters in the number of people could not reduce the gap between the population. However, after the ninth parliamentary elections, the number of female voter information was not collected after updating the voter list with the photograph in 2007-2008.

According to the Bureau of Statistics, till January 1, 2017, the total population of the country is 16.17 million and 50 thousand. Of these, 8 crore 10 lakh men and 8 crore 7 lakh 50 thousand women.