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LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2019

Third Gender Electors

(STATE/UT WISE)

To abide by the Commission’s ‘No Voter to be Left Behind’ mandate, necessary them to participate in the electoral process has been a huge challenge for the
efforts are undertaken to ensure inclusion from all sections of the society in the Commission. Numerous measures have been adopted to spread awareness among
electoral process. Enrolment of transgender in the Electoral Roll and motivating the transgenders resulting in an increase in the number of third gender electors.

T17.1 Number of Third Gender Electors (2019)

State/UT (in alphabetical order) No of Third Gender electors State/UT (in alphabetical order) No of Third Gender electors

Uttar Pradesh 7,797 Kerala 174

Tamil Nadu 5,793 Jammu & Kashmir 160

Karnataka 4,826 Puducherry 96

Andhra Pradesh 3,957 Himachal Pradesh 47

Odisha 2,923 Manipur 45

Maharashtra 2,406 Chandigarh 21

Bihar 2,164 Tripura 14

Telangana 1,504 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 9

Madhya Pradesh 1,417 Mizoram 5

West Bengal 1,329 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 3

Gujarat 990 Arunachal Pradesh 0

Chhattisgarh 679 Daman & Diu 0

NCT of Delhi 669 Goa 0

Punjab 560 Lakshadweep 0

Assam 491 Meghalaya 0

Rajasthan 265 Nagaland 0

Haryana 258 Sikkim 0

Uttarakhand 243 Total 39,075

Jharkhand 230

Kerala made special efforts to ensure the
participation of transgender electors, such as
including members of the community in all the
creative campaigns and setting up of an election
helpdesk in front of the Secretariat in the capital,
which was manned entirely by transgenders and
used to create awareness and sensitization.

A proud Transgender Voter We have Voted

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