West Bengal SIR: Over 5 lakh names deleted from voter list, more than 60 lakh ‘under adjudication’

The Election Commission on Saturday said that the names of 5.46 lakh persons have been deleted from the voter list of West Bengal as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.

Further, a total of 60,06,675 “doubtful and pending” cases have been marked as “under adjudication” in the electoral rolls, the poll panel said. Of these, the names of those approved by judicial officers will be added to the rolls later through a supplementary list, the poll panel said.

The poll panel also said that it did not receive enumeration forms from 58,20,899 voters. These included those who died, were absent, had shifted, had already enrolled and others.

A total of 1,82,036 voters were added to the electoral rolls through Form 6 (form for inclusion) and Form 6A (form for inclusion of overseas electors), the Election Commission said.

West Bengal now has 7.04 crore voters, including the electors in the “under adjudication” list, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said.

SIR 2026 Electoral Roll at a glance.#ElectoralRoll #SIR@ECISVEEP @SpokespersonECI @PIBKolkata @airnews_kolkata pic.twitter.com/okgapIm1Ae— CEO West Bengal (@CEOWestBengal) February 28, 2026

The state’s draft electoral rolls, published on December 16, showed that more than 58 lakh voters were removed after being marked dead, shifted or absent.

After the draft roll was published, notices were issued to about 1.36 crore persons regarding logical discrepancies and 31.68 lakh unmapped voters...

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