As many as 571 voters aged above 100 and 80,775 over 85 years are among the 1,25,23,702 electorates, who enrolled for the fifth phase polling on May 20 across three districts’ seven Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, poll panel sources said on Saturday.
Barrackpore and Bongaon are in North 24 Parganas, Hooghly, Serampore and Arambagh in the Hooghly district and Howrah and Uluberia are going to the fifth stage hustings on Monday.
However, it was not ascertained how many women are among the centennial voters, who were born in the first half of the last century.
There are altogether 61,72,034 women voters among the over 1.25 crore electors in the urban and rural areas.
It was also not known how many are female voters among the plus 85 voters of 80,775 sources added.
There are also 348 third gender electorates and 70,399 voters, who are in the category of PwD (persons with disabilities).
Visual impairment, speech and hearing disabilities, locomotor disability and others fall in the category of PwD, for whom the Election Commission of India (ECI) in a landmark step has provided facility of home voting.
Among the 1,25,23,702 electorate, new voters in the category of 18/19 years are 2,60,398, the poll official said.
