47,000 voters deleted in Mamata’s constituency, 11,000 in LoP Suvendhu Adhikary’s seat
KOLKATA, Feb 28: Over 63 lakh names were deleted from the pre-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal, resulting in the revised total electorate of a little over 7.04 crore, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Saturday.
The voter count exceeded 7.66 crore in the state before the commencement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in November last year.
According to the draft electoral rolls published in December after the enumeration phase of the revision exercise, the size of the electorate shrank to around 7.08 crore, down by over 58 lakh from the pre-SIR rolls.
Addressing a press conference here, Agarwal said the exercise led to the “deletion of 5.46 lakh electors through Form 7 after due verification”, and “inclusion of 1.82 lakh new voters through Form 6 and Form 6A”.
An additional 6,671 voters were added through Form 8 for shifting within the state, he said.Form 6 is used for inclusion, and Form 6A for inclusion of overseas electors, as per the Election Commission. Form 8 is for electors who shifted from outside a state or within a state, and Form 7 for deletion.
The revision exercise, carried out in lines with directives of the Election Commission and orders of the Supreme Court, resulted in the revised electorate of a little over 7.04 crore in the state, the CEO said.Of the revised 7.04 crore electorate, over 3.60 crore are men, 3.44 crore women and 1,382 belong to the third gender, he said.
In all, 58.20 lakh enumeration forms were not received during the SIR exercise, covering categories such as deceased voters (24.16 lakh), absent electors (12.20 lakh), and those who had permanently shifted from their addresses (19.88 lakh).
Some 60.06 lakh electors remain in the “under adjudication” category but have been included in revised rolls, Agarwal said.
“The revised rolls reflect both inclusion of eligible electors and removal of ineligible entries while maintaining the same gender ratio at 956 as in the draft rolls,” he said.
The revision exercise used January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date for new electors.
The updated rolls will be displayed at all polling stations and made available for public inspection from Saturday, the West Bengal CEO said.
MAMATA AND LoP’S CONSTITUENCY
As per statistics, names of around 47,000 voters were deleted in the case of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Assembly constituency, while the same figure in the case of the constituency of the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, stood at around 11,000.
As the figures available from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, in the case of Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, where the legislator is the Chief Minister, the total number of deleted names in the final voters’ list stands at 47,111.
Similarly, in the case of Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district, where the legislator is the Leader of the Opposition, the total number of deleted names in the final voters’ list stands at 10,994.In the case of Bhabanipur, the number of voters whose documents are currently under judicial adjudication stands at 14,154.
Which means that more names from that constituency are likely to be deleted at the end of the judicial adjudication process.
In the case of Nandigram, the number of voters whose documents are currently under judicial adjudication stands at 8,819.
At the time the report was filed, there was no reaction from anyone in Trinamool Congress on the huge number of voters already deleted for Bhabanipur.
However, LoP Adhikari, commenting on it, said that the deletion of such a large number of voters from Bhabanipur has enough reasons for the Chief Minister to panic.“In Bhabanipur, an adequate number of voters are not there anymore who can ensure the Chief Minister’s victory in the Assembly polls scheduled later this year,” the BJP leader said. (Agencies)
