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The Election Commission published its final electoral roll in Bihar, containing details of 7.42 crore voters, a drop of more than 47 lakh since June, when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was launched.
According to media reports, The number of voters in the final roll is, however, higher than in the draft roll (7.24 crore), which came out in August after names of 65 lakh electors were knocked off as they were found to be “absent”, “shifted” or “dead”.
According to a statement issued by the Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar, names of 21.53 lakh “eligible voters”, which got left out in the draft roll, were added since publication of the draft roll on August 1.
However, names of 3.66 lakh voters, which were in the draft roll, were also deleted in the course of the “claims and objections” phase.
The EC did not specify the grounds on which names in the draft roll were found to be of “ayogya” (ineligible) electors by the time of the publication of the final roll.
Other details like a district-wise break up, besides number of males, females and third-gender voters, and proportion of different age groups, were still awaited.
Earlier, the CEO had come out with a social media post, in which the EC was also tagged, to announce “in the light of Special Intensive Revision, the final electoral roll has been published on 30.09.2025. People can look up their names by clicking on the link voters.eci.gov.in”.
