Senior Secretary of the Election Commission Secretariat Akhtar Ahmed released the final voter list at a briefing at Nirbachan Bhaban in city’s Agargaon. Photo: BSS

DHAKA, Nov 18, 2025 (BSS) - The Election Commission (EC) has published the final voter list ahead of the 13th national elections. 

According to the voter list, there is a total of 12,76,95,183 voters in the country now. Of them, 6,48,14,907 are male voters, while 6,28,79,042 are female voters and 1,234 third gender (Hijra) voters.

Senior Secretary of the Election Commission Secretariat Akhtar Ahmed released the final voter list at a briefing in front of his office at Nirbachan Bhaban in city’s Agargaon on Tuesday.

EC Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said the EC has updated the voter list by including those who reached the age of 18 as on October 31.

He said the growth rate of male voters is 2.29 percent, while women voters is 4.16 percent. He mentioned that what has been published today is the growth rate from the voter list that was finalised on March 2.

Responding to a question, the EC Secretary said the number of voters has increased due to enlisting voters by going door to door and motivating and campaigning for voter registration at different times.

Earlier, the EC published the draft voter list on November 2. The total number of voters in the draft list was 12,76,12,384.  Of them, 64,47,60,382 were male voters, 6,28,50,772 were female voters and 1,230 are third gender (hijra) voters.

Earlier, in the supplementary voter list published on August 31, the total number of voters in the country was 12,63,09,504. 

The EC Secretary also said as of March 2 this year, the total number of voters in the country was 12,37, 32,274. Later, the supplementary draft voter list was published on August 10, including the voters registered until June 30.