Punjab’s final electoral rolls have been published following a months-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with 2,01,00,727 electors eligible to vote in the state’s 117 Assembly constituencies, according to the Chief Electoral Officer’s office.
The Election Commission’s exercise was intended to update electoral records by identifying deaths, permanent migration, absent voters and duplicate entries. Punjab was included in Phase III of the SIR programme. The final list, released on Monday, records a decline of more than 13.6 lakh voters, or 6.33 per cent, from the 2,14,61,043 electors registered before the revision began. However, the final list is larger than the one recorded in the draft electoral roll published on August 13. The number of registered voters rose from 1,93,94,435 to 2,01,00,727, a net increase of 3.64 per cent. READ | ‘Sachin Pilot Can Deny Ticket, My Leader Is Rahul Gandhi’: Raja Warring Defiant At Punjab Congress Unity Show Chief Electoral Officer Anindita Mitra said 7,97,263 new electors had been enrolled in the final list. The revision comes ahead of the 2027 Punjab Assembly election which is expected to take place in the month of February. The Election Commission of India directed the SIR of electoral rolls for Punjab through a notification on May 14. The exercise formally began in the state on June 25. READ | Bhagat Singh Photo On Ludhiana Voter Roll Sparks Row, Authorities Clarify The claims and objections period ran from August 13 to September 12.
It involved serving notices on electors whose records could not be mapped adequately or who had discrepancies requiring verification. The notice and disposal phase ran from August 13 to October 8. Notices were issued to 35,49,036 electors, according to the Chief Electoral Officer’s office. Of these, 86,038 were ultimately marked ineligible.
