NEW DELHI: Over 20 million voters from 12 states and Union Territories (UTs) have been included during the second phase of the Special Intensified Revision (SIR), bringing the net deletion of voters to nearly 52 million, or 10.2 per cent of the total electorate of around 510 million when the SIR begins on October 27, 2025. The total number of deletions in states/Union Territories in the second phase amounted to Rs 7.2 crore. However, new voters (Form 6 for first-time voters) and existing voters registered at new addresses (Form 8) included names of Rs 20,000 crore. According to data from the Election Commission, more than 650 million absentee, transferred, dead, double-registered and “other” voters were identified and removed from the electoral rolls in A&N Islands, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, TN, Goa, Puducherry, MP, Rajasthan, Kerala and Lakshadweep. Another 6.32 million names were removed through Form 7 (objection to listing) and rulings (except Bangladesh, where judicial officials removed 2.72 million names).
After cleansing of lists, 458 million voters remain on the lists of 12 states and Union Territories
Nearly 66.9 million rupees were deleted due to death, 1.30 million rupees were due to registration at multiple places, 1.30 million rupees were found not to be at the registered address, 3.10 million rupees were permanently transferred; 1.27 million rupees were classified under the ‘other’ category. “After purifying the rolls, 12 states/Union Territories now have 458 million voters. The removal of over 650 million ASDD and other voters who were on the rolls but did not vote and posed the risk of false votes being cast in their names has resulted in pure and accurate rolls that serve the purpose of the SIR. This explains the all-time high turnout in Assam and Puducherry on April 9,” an Election Commission official said. State-wise, the rolling purification rate (net purification rate divided by the total number of voters before SIR) was highest in Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 16.6 per cent, followed by Uttar Pradesh at 13.2 per cent, Gujarat at 13.1 per cent and Chhattisgarh at 11.3 per cent. West Bengal ranks fifth among 12 states/Union Territories in terms of purification rate. It is noteworthy that apart from the Rs 2.71 million which were removed from the Bengal list after the ruling, another Rs 6 lakh was removed due to objections to its inclusion in the Bengal list. West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Goa recorded a net loss of voters of 10.9%, 10.6% and 10.2% respectively, while the net loss of voters in Puducherry was 7%. States such as MP, Rajasthan, Kerala and Lakshadweep have lower net deletion rates of 5.7%, 5.4%, 2.5% and 0.3% respectively. Of the 20 million names in 12 states/Union Territories, the largest number is Uttar Pradesh (92.4 million), followed by Tamil Nadu (3.5 million), Kerala (2.04 million), Rajasthan (1.54 million), Madhya Pradesh (12.9 million) and Gujarat (1.21 million).
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