Kolkata: Over 58 lakh voter names have been identified for deletion as the Election Commission of India (ECI) released the draft electoral rolls for West Bengal following the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
The second part of the three-phase SIR exercise will continue until February 2026. The final voters' list will be published on February 14, 2026, ahead of the high-stakes Bengal assembly elections.
According to the data released by the ECI, a total of 58,20,898 voter names have been identified for deletion, which include around 24,16,852 electors identified as dead. This is followed by 19,88,076 voters who have either shifted permanently or migrated.
Additionally, 12,20,038 voters have been marked as missing, while 1,38,328 names have been identified as duplicate, false, or bogus entries. Another 57,604 names have been proposed for deletion due to "other reasons".
The Bengal SIR exercise, which started on December 4 and concluded on December 11, was marked by an exodus of illegal Bangladeshis and protests by booth-level officers (BLOs) over harsh timelines and work pressure.
Puducherry electoral rolls: Over 1 lakh names droppedAs many as 103,000 names have not appeared in the revised Puducherry voter list, as per the draft electoral rolls published this week by the district election officer. The total number of voters in Puducherry now stands at 918,000 at the end of the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), down from 1,021,000 as of October 27. While more than 80,000 have shifted permanently, as many as 20,798 were dead. |
