The Election Commission will furnish the final number of the deleted voters on Tuesday. The draft electoral rolls, which will be published on August 24, will likely exclude over 20.8 million or 21.25% electors in the state, as the deadline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ended on Monday. Over 3.66 million or 35.24% electors in Mumbai and its suburbs are set to be deleted from the draft rolls.
Also Read I Successful SIR led to high voter turnout in 2025 Bihar polls: CEC The numbers are not convincing for many – Congress’s Mumbadevi MLA Amin Patel has complained to the CEO, stating BLOs did not distribute the enumeration forms to the eligible voters. For instance, Mumbadevi constituency has 2,41,959 electors, and of them 95,538 or 39% have been shown as permanently shifted or deceased,” Patel wrote in a letter to the CEO. Election commission officials said electors from the ASDD category who have not been traced despite multiple attempts by BLOs are unlikely to be part of the electoral rolls which will be released next week.
Because of the high rate of migration in urban areas, the percentage of enumeration has been far more encouraging in the rural parts compared to cities such as Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nagpur. In Mumbai , constituencies such as Worli, Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, Malad West, Colaba and Malabar Hill have registered the highest number of untraceable voters, while the percentage of enumeration remained highest in constituencies such as Borivali and Mulund. “The BLOs did not reach the eligible voters and marked them as permanently shifted without verifying their current status.
