West Bengal SIR: Electorate shrinks 12% since October

West Bengal SIR: Electorate shrinks 12% since October, with the fresh exclusion of 27 lakh voters under adjudication - The Hindu
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West Bengal SIR: Electorate shrinks 12% since October, with the fresh exclusion of 27 lakh voters under adjudication
Since the SIR began, 91 lakh voters have been excluded; highest number of deletions of voters under adjudication in Muslim-dominated Murshidabad district, followed by North 24 Parganas and Malda
Updated - April 08, 2026 08:04 am IST - Kolkata
Shiv Sahay Singh, Shrabana Chatterjee
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People queue up to submit their petitions before the Special Tribunal after their names were deleted from the Special Intensive Revision final voter list, at Ranaghat town, in Nadia, on April 6, 2026.
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Over 27 lakh voters who were put under adjudication were excluded from West Bengal ’s electoral rolls on Tuesday (April 7, 2026), with over a quarter of such deletions occurring in two-Muslim dominated districts in the State.
In all, 91 lakh names have been deleted from the State’s voter list since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began, meaning that West Bengal’s electorate has shrunk almost 12%, from 7.66 crore electors in October 2025 to 6.75 crore now, days ahead of the Assembly election. In the last Assembly election in 2021, there were 7.34 crore voters eligible to cast their ballot.
Published - April 07, 2026 03:33 pm IST
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