Election Commission releases final voter list after SIR in West Bengal, more than 60 lakh votes deleted

The Election Commission in West Bengal released the new voter list on Saturday (28 February 2026) after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list. According to Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Aggarwal, the number of voters in the voter list of West Bengal after names deleted and added during the SIR process is 7,04,59,284. At the same time, names of more than 61 lakh people were removed.

Names of 63 lakh 66 thousand 952 (63,66,952) voters have been removed from the final list. At the same time, 1,82,036 voters have been added under Form 6 and 6A and 6,671 voters have been included in the list under Form 8. There are about 61 lakh such cases which are under doubt and as per the order of the Supreme Court, the decision regarding them will now be taken under the supervision of the Judicial Magistrate.

Physical verification of voters was done under the SIR process, in which booth level officials personally distributed and collected voter roll forms. This helped in removing deceased, permanently migrated voters and duplicate names. Before SIR, there were a total of 7,66,37,529 voters in West Bengal as of October 27, 2025, which included male 3,89,03,865, female 3,77,31,887 and transgender voters 1,777.

In the process of SIR, 58,20,899 forms were not received, which included 24,16,852 deceased, 12,20,039 absentees and others. As per the draft publication of 16 December 2025, the number of voters reduced to 7,08,16,630. This includes 3,61,99,391 male voters, 3,46,15,837 female voters and 1,402 transgender voters. Also, voters above 85 years of age are 4,09,462, voters living abroad are 85 and disabled voters are 4,60,479.

During this period, a total of 1,82,036 voters were added through Form-6 and Form-6A (for new voters and voters living abroad), which included 89,445 male, 92,583 female and 8 transgender voters. At the same time, 6,671 voters were added from Form-8 (for transfer within the state). A total of 5,46,053 voters were removed from the list through Form-7 (for deletion), which included 2,68,147 male, 2,77,877 female and 29 transgender voters.

After this, in the final voter list published on 28 February 2026, the total voters are 7,04,59,284, which includes male 3,60,22,642, female 3,44,35,260 and transgender voters 1,382. Following the directions of the Supreme Court, judicial scrutiny of the identity documents of about 60 lakh voters is going on by the judicial officers appointed by the Election Commission of India, while the names of 61,78,245 people have been removed.