The voter base in nine states and Union territories has shrunk by more than 1.70 crore following the publication of final electoral rolls as part of the ongoingSpecial Intensive Revision(SIR), according to official data released on Saturday. Data shared by the chief electoral officers of Gujarat, Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Goa and Kerala showed their combined voter base stood at over 21.45 crore before the SIR exercise began on October 27 last year.

It shrunk to 19.75 crore after publication of their final electoral rolls this week -- a net change of over 1.70 crore electors.

In Gujarat, while the electorate before the SIR stood at 5.08 crore, it shrunk to 4.40 crore -- a net change of 68.12 lakh. In percentage terms, a net change of 13.40 per cent.

In Lakshadweep. before the poll roll cleanup exercise, the voter base stood at 57,813. But after the publication of the final electoral rolls, it went down to 57,607 -- a net change of 206 electors. In percentage terms, a net change of 0.36 per cent.

In poll-bound Puducherry, the total number of electors before SIR commenced was over 10.21 lakh. It shrunk to 9.44 lakh when the final rolls were published -- a net change of 7.57 per cent in percentage terms.

Rajasthan has finalised its electoral rolls with more than 5.15 crore voters following the completion of SIR. Officials said the exercise recorded a net increase of 10,48,605 electors (2.08 per cent) between draft and final publication. Of the total voters, 2,69,57,881 are male, 2,45,61,486 are female, and 562 belong to the third gender category. The gender ratio improved from 909 to 911 during the revision period.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands saw the removal of 5,269 names from the draft electoral roll. The final electoral roll released by the Chief Electoral Office (CEO) has a total of 2,58,040 electors. The revision was carried out from October 27 last year to February 21. Out of the 3,10,404 electors enrolled in the Electoral Roll as on October 27, 2025, a total of 64,014 ineligible electors have been removed in the draft roll. “Subsequently, the statutory period for filing Claims and Objections was conducted, during which 16,919 were added and 5,269 ineligible electors were deleted,” according to a statement by the CEO’s office.

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The Election Commission of India on Saturday published the final electoral roll for Madhya Pradesh after a nearly four-month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, deleting over 34 lakh names from the list. The state now has more than 5.39 crore voters, as per the final electoral roll. According to the data released by the EC, Madhya Pradesh had 5,74,06,143 voters before SIR began in October last year.

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