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SIR in West Bengal: 58 Lakh Names Deleted. What to Do if Your Name Is Missing From Voter List on ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in
More than 58 lakh voters were deleted from West Bengal's electoral rolls for being dead, untraceable, shifted, or duplicates, ahead of the 2026 assembly elections.
- On Tuesday , the Election Commission of India published West Bengal draft electoral rolls and deleted-voter lists on the CEO West Bengal site, EC voter portal, and ECINET app.
- The SIR sought to remove voters marked 'dead', permanently shifted, untraceable or 'duplicate', commission sources said, and was carried out ahead of elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly due early next year.
- During the SIR, officials recorded 7,08,16,631 voters in draft rolls and deleted 58,20,898 entries through a four-step process using the Booth Level Officer app.
- To dispute removals, voters must file claims in Form 6 on the commission website/portal between 16/12/2025 and 15/01/2026, commission sources said.
- The electoral roll stood at 7,66,37,529 voters as of January 2025, and Election Commission officials ran help desks in Sonagachi, Kolkata during the SIR, commission sources said.
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Bengal SIR: EC publishes draft electoral rolls; over 58 lakh names deleted
Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday published West Bengal’s draft electoral rolls following SIR, with officials indicating that the names of more than 58 lakh voters have been deleted on various grounds, including death, migration and non-submission of enumeration forms. After these deletions, the state’s draft electoral rolls are expected to carry the names of 7,08,16,631 voters, 58,20,898 fewer than 7,66,37,529, which was the elec…
SIR in West Bengal: 58 Lakh names deleted. What to do if your name is missing from voter list on ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in
SIR in West Bengal: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday 916 December) published the draft electoral rolls for West Bengal as part of its ongoing SIR exercise
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