Summary:
Raigad has 8.34 lakh women voters compared to 8.03 lakh men voters, and Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg has 7.35 lakh compared to 7.05 lakh. Women account for nearly 4.2 crore of the state’s 8.7 crore voters.In two important constituencies, Raigad and Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, women now outnumber men by about 30,000. During the period, the number of male voters has gone up four times. MUMBAI: Women formed just 35% of Maharashtra’s voters in 1952, but their strength has gone up seven times since then to constitute 48% of the state’s electorate for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Women’s turnout in the 2009 polls was 47.39%, which rose to 57.98% in 2014..