EC Releases Draft Electoral Rolls and Deleted Voter Checklist for Bengal Forward of SIR 2026


Election Commission officials assist voters at a help desk camp for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls-2026, in Sonagachi, Kolkata. File.

Election Fee officers help voters at a assist desk camp for the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls-2026, in Sonagachi, Kolkata. File.
| Photograph Credit score: PTI

The Election Fee on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) revealed the draft electoral rolls of West Bengal based mostly on its enumeration suggestions.

The Fee additionally revealed on its web site the names of voters whose names had been included within the electoral rolls of the State in 2025 however had been deleted from the draft rolls of 2026, stating causes for his or her deletion.

The draft rolls have been made obtainable on the official web site of CEO, West Bengal, ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in/Electors in addition to the voter portal of the EC, voters.eci.gov.in, and likewise on the ECINET software.

The listing of deleted voters is at present obtainable on the fee’s portal hyperlink ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in/asd_sir.

The variety of “uncollectable SIR enumeration varieties”, in line with fee sources, exceeds 58 lakh, and had been deleted on grounds of both remaining absent from their registered addresses, completely shifted, useless or marked as ‘duplicate’ voters in multiple constituencies.The variety of “uncollectable SIR enumeration varieties”, in line with fee sources, exceed 58 lakh and had been deleted on grounds of both remaining absent from their registered addresses, completely shifted, useless or marked as ‘duplicate’ voters in multiple constituencies.

Whereas over 24 lakh voters have been marked as ‘useless’, greater than 12 lakh voters couldn’t be traced of their registered addresses, shut to twenty lakh voters had been discovered to have completely shifted from their earlier constituencies and one other 1.38 lakh voters had been discovered to have duplicate identify entries, fee sources stated.

The names of over 57,000 voters had been deleted on grounds of different issues that had been unearthed throughout the enumeration section, they added.

“Aggrieved individuals can submit their claims in Kind 6 together with the Declaration Kind and supporting paperwork after publication of draft roll throughout the interval fastened for receiving claims and objections i.e. 16/12/2025 until 15/01/2026,” the fee web site said.

Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Meeting are due early subsequent 12 months.



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