With the enumeration stage of West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) completed, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has marked over 58 lakh voters as potentially removable from the current electoral roll.
According to data from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), the digitisation of forms collected by Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) until Thursday night shows that 58,08,232 entries qualify as "excludable".
Of these:
24,18,699 are voters reported deceased,
19,93,087 are those who have shifted residence,
The remaining category includes duplicate entries and voters eligible for removal due to various other reasons.
West Bengal’s existing voters’ list, as of October 27, 2025, stands at 7,66,37,529 electors. The SIR process began on November 4, with the draft electoral roll set for release on December 16. The final list for the first stage will be published on February 14.
Following this, the ECI will launch the second phase, which will focus on filing and reviewing claims and objections. Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) will simultaneously issue notices, conduct hearings, verify documents, and dispose of cases.
The third and concluding phase of the SIR—publication of the final electoral roll—will also culminate on February 14. The announcement of dates for the West Bengal Assembly elections is likely to follow soon after.
To ensure greater transparency, the ECI has decided to provide separate lists of the flagged excludable voters to Booth-Level Agents (BLAs) of all registered political parties.
