The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Karnataka State Election Commission have published a draft voters' list which said there are 79,08,394 voters in Bengaluru. Out of these, 41,09,496 are male, 37,97,497 are female and 1,401 are transgender voters. The list was drawn after delimitation of BBMP wards, which resulted in the number of wards increasing from 198 to 243.