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SIR 2.0 draft rolls: 13% electors deleted in 9 states and 3 UTs
Financial Express Pune
|January 07, 2026
ATOTAL OF 65.6 million electors, or nearly 13% of the registered voters, in nine states and three Union Territories have been deleted from the draft rolls in the second round of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls — an increase from the 8.3% deletions seen in the first round of SIR in Bihar last year.
With the publication of the draft roll in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, data for all 12 states and UTs released by the respective Chief Electoral Officers in December and January shows that the total number of electors fell from 509.7 million on October 27, when the EC announced the SIR, to 444 million.
In UP, where the draft roll was published after three postponements, the total number of electors decreased by nearly 19%, from 154.4 million to 125.5 million, with 14.06% deletions on account of electors being declared absent or shifted, 1.65% enrolled at multiple places and 2.99% deceased.
This story is from the January 07, 2026 edition of Financial Express Pune.
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