Only 12 out of 68 assembly segments female dominated in Himachal

SHIMLA: After the new delimitation of the 68 assembly segments in Himachal Pradesh on the basis of which the next Vidhan Sabha elections will be contested, it has emerged that there will be only 12 segments which will be female dominated. Rest all will be male dominated as far as voter percentage is concerned.
While over all the average ratio is 955 females to every 1000 male voters in the state, Sujanpur assembly segment will have the unique distinction of being the most female dominated assembly segment in the state with 1077 females to every 1000 male voters.
It will be followed by Bhoranj where this ratio is 1076 female voters to every 1000 males and Jaisinghpur which would have 1072 females to every 1000 males. Jaswan has just about 1005 female voters to every 1000 male voters while Nadaun comes next with 1006 females to every 1000 males.
The worst skewed up sex ratio is in the Shimla assembly segment, where it is just 785 females to every 1000 male voters, followed by Shilllai which has 788 female voters to every 1000 males and Shri Renukaji where the ratio goes up to 913 females to every 1000 males.
According to the latest figures there are total of 44.45 lakh voters in the state of which 21.72 lakh are females and 22.74 lakhs are males.
However, the surveys of the past elections in the state indicate that there is no specific trend amongst the female voters and that they are more or less influenced by the menfolk in their families. It cannot be said that the female voters normally vote for Congress or BJP.
HPCC spokesperson Kuldeep Singh Rathore, however, felt that the female voters in the state were more oriented towards the Congress than the BJP as per the party experience at the ground root level. "A reason for this could be that earlier it was Indira Gandhi who appealed more to the women voters and now it is Sonia Gandhi", he claimed.
But former spokesperson of the state unit of the BJP, Ashok Kapahtia was of the view that because of the Hindutva and the ram temple issue for which the BJP had come out openly over the years, the female voters by and large favour the saffron party because they are generally more religiously inclined than the males.