The Election Commission of India on Saturday released the voter lists for West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). As of February 28, 2026, there are a total of 70,459,284 voters in the state and 546,053 voters have been deleted from the list (Form 7).
Bengal's voter count stood at over 7.04 crore
West Bengal's voter count in post-SIR electoral rolls stood at over 7.04 crore after deletions and additions during the revision exercise, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Saturday.
The electoral roll revision process led to the deletion of over 5.46 lakh electors through Form-7 and inclusion of more than 1.82 lakh voters via Form-6 and Form-6A submissions, Agarwal told reporters.
58 lakh enumeration forms were not received
"Over 58 lakh enumeration forms were not received during the revision process, including cases of deceased, shifted and duplicate electors," he said. The CEO also said that over 60 lakh electors remain in the "under adjudication" category but have been included in the post-SIR electoral rolls.
The revision exercise was carried out in accordance with the directions of the Election Commission, he added.
Post-SIR electoral rolls trigger political ripples in Bhabanipur
Ahead of the 2026 assembly elections in West Bengal, the publication of the post-SIR electoral rolls on Saturday triggered fresh political ripples in Bhabanipur, a constituency represented by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, with over 47,000 names struck off and more than 14,000 kept "under adjudication".
South Kolkata's Bhabanipur assembly segment, widely regarded as Banerjee's pocket borough, had 2,06,295 voters when the SIR process began on November 4 last year.
Draft roll was published on Dec 16 last year
The draft roll, published on December 16 last year, showed deletion of 44,786 names. In the final list released on Saturday, another 2,324 names were removed, taking the total deletions to 47,094, a figure roughly 11,000 less than the over 58,000-vote margin secured by Banerjee in the 2021 Bhabanipur bypoll.
This comparison is likely to add a sharper political edge to the constituency's pre-2026 electoral discourse. Apart from the deletions, 14,154 voters have been placed in the "under adjudication" category, with their fate subject to document verification.
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