The voter list for 2011 by Election Commission of Pakistan has 80.72 million verified names as compared to 81.21 million names in the list for 2007. – File Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday issued a new district-wise list of voters after deleting 37.18 million names from the list of 2007 and adding the names of 36.69 million other persons after verification from National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra).

The voter list for 2011 has 80.72 million verified names as compared to 81.21 million names in the list for 2007.

A perusal of the new list for Islamabad zone shows that 153,965 names have been deleted from the previous list. However, with the inclusion of 324,116 new names the total number of voters in the federal capital now stands at 652,699.

The commission has struck off the names of 18.35 million persons in Punjab but added 20.25 million new names, taking the total number of voters in the province to 47.05 million. The previous list had 45.14 million names, which means that the province now has about two million more voters.

However, the number of voters has declined in Sindh. The list for 2007 had 19.75 million names but the new one has only 17.77 million names. (The names of 10.59 million persons have been deleted and those of 8.61 million others added to the list.)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now has 11.64 million voters, compared to 10.8 million in 2007 because 4.67 million unverified names have been deleted from the list and 5.51 million new ones added to it.

The number of voters in Balochistan has now fallen to three million. Previously it had some 4.22 million voters.

With the inclusion of 759,775 new names in the list and removal of 788,655 names from it, the total number of voters of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas now stands at 1.25 million.

In Punjab, the largest number of unverified names was reported from Lahore district, for which 1.49 million names were deleted from the list. However, 2.08 million new names were included in the list, taking the total number of voters in the district to 4.26 million, compared to 3.67 million in 2007.

The new list for Karachi has about 6.8 million names, compared to 6.63 million in the old list. The number of names removed from the list stands at 2.72 million and the number of names added at 2.88 million.

Peshawar now has 1.38 million voters, compared to 1.25 million in 2007. Similarly, Quetta now has 560,083 voters, compared to 652,799 voters in 2007.