Kolkata, Dec 12 || With the enumeration phase of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal complete, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified 58 lakh excludable voters from the current voters’ list.
As per figures available from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), based on the trend of digitisation of the duly filled enumeration forms collected by the booth-level officers (BLOs) from voters till Thursday night, a total of 58,08,232 voters have been found as excludable.
Out of them, 24,18,699 are deceased voters. The total number of shifted voters, that is, voters who have moved elsewhere, is 19 93,087. The rest are duplicate voters, that is, voters having names at two places, and also the voters who are found suitable for exclusion for other reasons.
The total number of voters as per the current list as of October 27, 2025, is 7,66,37,529. The SIR exercise started on November 4. The draft voters’ list will be published on December 16. The final voters’ list will be published on February 14, which will end the first stage of the three-stage SIR exercise.