India, Nov. 21 -- Municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram on Thursday released the draft voter list for all 41 wards of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), putting the total number of voters at 3,551,469 - an increase of nearly nine lakhs since the 2017 civic elections. The surge is largely due to the inclusion of 34 merged villages whose population has now been added to the PMC limits.

Ram said, "The largest ward by voter count is Sus-Baner-Pashan with 1.60 lakh voters, while the smallest is Upper Indiranagar with 62,205 voters." Objections to the draft list can be filed until November 27 but bulk objections will not be accepted, the municipal commissioner said. PMC polls are likely to be held in January 2026.

Ram said that Pune has...