Gopalganj sees max share of deletions, more women out

The Election Commission of India (ECI) published the final electoral roll for Bihar after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process on Tuesday.

- Nishant Ranjan

While the number of eligible voters in the 2025 assembly polls in the state can still change — additions/deletions can be made up to 10 days before the filing of nominations ~ the state has 74.2 million voters as of now. This is 4.7 million less than the number of electors on June 24 but 1.8 million more than the number of electors published in the draft SIR roll published on August 1.

To be sure, the primary reason why the number of electors has increased between the electoral rolls published on August 1 and September 30 is not a reversal of deletions in the SIR process but the addition of 2.2 million new voters via the Form 6 route.

The latest electoral roll has also deleted another 0.4 million “ineligible voters” from the draft list.