104 constituencies have gender gap of over 50,000.

ISLAMABAD -- There are as many as 12 National Assembly constituencies in three provinces of the country where the percentage of women voters is less than 41 per cent.

Six of such constituencies are in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, four in Sindh and two in Balochistan.

A thorough analysis of the constituency-wise data of voters posted by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on its website shows that the situation in NA-50 (South Waziristan) is the worst as the gap there between male and female voters exceeds the total number of women enrolled as voters.

The number of male and female voters in the constituency is 122,563 (68.16pc) and 56,733 (31.64pc), respectively; the gender gap, therefore, comes to 65,830.

Difference in NA-50 greater than the total number of women voters

The second worst case is that of NA-263 (Killa Abdullah) in Balochistan where the number of registered men on the electoral roles is 189,419 (64.17pc) against a total of 105,747 (35.83pc) women, which translates into a gap of 83,672.

In NA-48 (North Waziristan) the number of male voters is 220,765 (61.93pc) against 115,687 (38.07pc) female voters, the gap coming to 85,078.

In Mohmand NA-42 the number of male and female voters is 284,519 (61.02pc) and 117,856, respectively, the difference working out to 66,663.

Similarly, in NA-51 (Frontier Regions) the number of male voters is 123,334 (60.54pc) and that of female voters 80,401 (39.46pc). The gap thus comes to 42,933.

The number of men on the electoral roles in NA-250 (Karachi West III) is 242,237 (69.02pc) and that of women 164 674 (39.98pc), the gap working out to 82,583.

In NA-264 (Quetta I) the number of male and female voters is 115,693 (59.66pc) and 77,578 (40.14pc), respectively. The gap between them, therefore, comes to 38,114.

In NA-249 (Karachi West II) the number of registered male voters is 197,612 (59.61pc) and that of women voters 133,877 (40.39pc), with the gap coming to 63,735.

In NA-7 (Lower Dir II) the number of male and female voters is 218,479 (59.45pc) and 149,026 (40.55pc), respectively; the gap is therefore 69,453.

Likewise, in NA-238 (Malir III) the number of male voters is 137,926 (59.39pc) and that of women voters 94,311, with the gap coming to 43,615.

The NA-5 (Upper Dir) constituency has the largest difference of 93,991 between male and female voters. The number of male voters there is 299,665 (59.3pc) against 205,674 (40.70pc) women voters.

In NA-248 (Karachi-West I) the number of male voters is...