Member Parliament (MP) Manish Tewari has sought a detailed, ward-wise and elector-wise reconciliation of the nearly two-lakh decline in the city’s electorate since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, days after the final electoral roll was published following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
The MP wrote that given the scale of the change in the electorate, it is essential that there be complete clarity on what basis these voters have been removed or omitted.
The letter also states that in cases where an elector has been classified as “enrolled elsewhere,” the election department may provide details of the place where the elector is stated to be enrolled. The issue comes against the backdrop of Puri’s press briefing on Tuesday, when the election department explained the outcome of the SIR exercise and the changes between the pre-enumeration, draft and final rolls.
The authorities cited field-verification categories including shifted, absent, deceased, duplicate and other cases. Over five lakh voters were on the electoral rolls of the city as of June 15, 2026, before the enumeration phase, according to the election department’s final figures. During the house-to-house surveys, the booth-level officers received 4,50,282 enumeration forms while 66,145 were not returned and those electors were consequently left out of the draft roll.
