Maharashtra SIR: 21% voters removed from draft electoral rolls

More than two crore voters have been removed from the draft voter list for Maharashtra as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls. The draft roll has 7.7 crore voters.

Electors whose names do not figure in the draft account for 21.1% of Maharashtra’s previous voter base.

Those removed from the voter list were marked as either permanently shifted, deceased, absent, duplicate entries or placed under the “other” category, which includes those who refused to fill the enumeration form.

Pune district had the highest number of uncollected enumeration forms at 28.6 lakh, followed by Thane with 28.5 lakh, Mumbai Suburban with 26.5 lakh, PTI reported.

Those whose names are missing from the draft rolls can file claims and objections till September 30. Claims, objections and notices will be processed till October 29, while the final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on November 4.

Earlier in the day, the draft voter list for Delhi was also published. The names of 47.7 lakh voters in Delhi were removed from the draft electoral rolls in the national capital.

Maharashtra is among the 19 states and Union Territories where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of the SIR.

In 2025, the first phase of the exercise was conducted in Bihar. It was extended to 12...

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