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]]>Speaking on the process, Kumar stated that the voter lists of these regions will be frozen at midnight tonight, marking the official start of the next phase of revision. Every voter included in these lists will receive a Unique Enumeration Form, distributed by the Booth Level Officers (BLOs). These forms will contain all the details currently available in the official voter rolls.
Once the BLOs begin distributing the forms, existing voters will be asked to verify their details by cross-checking whether their names appear on the 2003 voter list. Kumar clarified that if a voter’s name is found on the 2003 list, no additional documents will be required. Similarly, if a voter’s parents’ names are listed from that period, they too are exempt from providing further documentation.
To make the verification process more transparent, the voter lists from 2002 to 2004 will be made publicly accessible on the Election Commission’s official website — [http://voters.eci.gov.in](http://voters.eci.gov.in) — allowing citizens to perform the matching themselves.
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]]>The initial phase will focus on states heading to the polls in 2026, including Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, and West Bengal. The exercise aims to ensure a more accurate and transparent electoral roll by removing duplicates, correcting errors, and adding new eligible voters.
Officials said the Commission will avoid conducting SIR in states where local body elections are underway or imminent, as local poll machinery remains occupied. Those states will be covered in later phases of the nationwide cleanup.
In Bihar, where the revision process has already concluded, the final voters’ list with 7.42 crore names was published on September 30. The state heads for elections in two phases on November 6 and 11, with counting scheduled for November 14.
The ECI has already held two national conferences with Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) to finalize the roadmap for the massive update drive. Several states have already uploaded their most recent voters’ lists on official websites, while others prepare for fresh revisions.
Notably, the Delhi CEO’s website still hosts the 2008 voter list, the last time a full-scale intensive revision was carried out in the national capital.
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]]>A bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said the Election Commission, as a responsible constitutional authority, must take corrective action and ensure the accuracy of the electoral roll. The court will next hear the legal matters related to the SIR process on November 4
During the hearing, the ECI informed the court that since the publication of the final electoral roll on September 30, not a single voter has filed an appeal against the deletion of their name.
However, advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), contested the Commission’s statement. He said that details of a voter whose name was allegedly omitted from the final list — earlier dismissed as “fake” by the EC during the October 7 hearing — were, in fact, genuine.
Bhushan urged the ECI to disclose the total number of voters deleted and the reasons behind such revisions to ensure full transparency in the process.
The bench noted that voter lists will be frozen on October 17 for constituencies voting in the first phase and on October 20 for those voting in the second phase of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.
Earlier, on October 7, the Supreme Court had asked the Election Commission to submit details of 3.66 lakh voters who were included in the draft list but excluded from the final one after the SIR exercise, citing “confusion” surrounding the matter.
According to the ECI, Bihar’s final electoral roll, published on September 30, recorded a reduction of about 47 lakh voters, bringing the total number down from 7.89 crore to 7.42 crore. However, the final figure still showed an increase of 17.87 lakh voters compared to the 7.24 crore electors listed in the draft roll issued on August 1.
The Commission explained that 65 lakh names were removed from the original list due to reasons such as death, migration, or duplication, while 21.53 lakh new voters were added. After removing 3.66 lakh names, the net gain stood at 17.87 lakh voters.
The Bihar Assembly elections are scheduled for November 6 in 121 constituencies, with the remaining 122 seats going to polls on November 11. The counting of votes will take place on November 14.
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]]>Between February 10 and March 7, the Election Commission of India barred the publication of exit polls, and also printed and digital media firms from holding or releasing electoral results forecasts.
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According to data given by the Election Commission of India, Khandwa had a 59.02 percent voter turnout until 5 p.m. among Lok Sabha seats (ECI). The Mandi Lok Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh had 47.17 percent voter turnout till 4 p.m., while the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha constituency had 67 percent voter turnout until 5 p.m.
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By-elections to the Lok Sabha will be held in the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh (Khandwa), and Himachal Pradesh for one seat each (Mandi). Assembly bye-elections will be held in one constituency in each of Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Nagaland, and Telangana; two constituencies in Karnataka, Bihar, and Rajasthan; three constituencies in Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and Madhya Pradesh; four constituencies in West Bengal; and five constituencies in Assam.
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