Electoral Rolls

The third phase of the Special Intensive Revision covered 16 States and three Union Territories. Of the 36.08 crore names on their rolls, 29.93 crore were retained and 6.15 crore — 17.04% — were removed in the draft lists published so far. Draft rolls for Nagaland and Tripura follow on 20 September and 21 October.

The Special Intensive Revision in Karnataka removed more than 1.07 crore names from the draft electoral rolls, the largest deletion reported in the exercise so far. The scale of the deletions drew objections from the Opposition, and the Supreme Court sought data on appeals in the parallel West Bengal revision as municipal elections approached.