Kolkata, Dec 12 || With the enumeration phase in the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal completed, a remarkably high number of existing voters identified through progeny-mapping has kept the Election Commission of India (ECI) sceptical.
As per the figures available from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), going by the trend of the digitisation of the duly filled enumeration forms collected by the booth-level officers (BLOs) from the voters, the total number of existing voters identified through progeny-mapping stands 3,84,85,166.
On the other hand, following the same digitisation trends, the number of existing voters identified through self-mapping is much lower at 2,94,52,893.
Self-mapping voters are those who have names both in the current voters’ list as of October 27, 2025, as well as in the voters’ list in 2002, the last time when the SIR was conducted in West Bengal.
On the other hand, progeny-mapping voters are those who do not have their own names but their parents’ names in the voters’ list for 2002.