So far, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has been completed in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (PTI)ECI SIR Draft Voter List 2026 UP Highlights: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has released the draft electoral roll for Uttar Pradesh. Names of 12.55 crore out of the 15.44 crore voters have been retained in draft electoral roll after SIR, UP Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said. With 2.89 crore names deleted, the state recorded the highest number of deletions (18.7%). Tamil Nadu (15%) and Gujarat (14.5%) ranked second and third, respectively, according to the states’ draft rolls published earlier this month.
Why the delay: After being postponed for the third time since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls exercise began in 12 states and Union Territories on October 27, the draft rolls were published on Tuesday. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer had requested a two-week extension to complete the process so that District Election Officers could re-verify the lists of voters marked as deceased, shifted, or absent. The state had already received a one-week extension earlier. So far, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has been completed in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Over 2.5 crore names may be deleted: Uttar Pradesh CEO Navdeep Rinwa said the draft electoral roll is likely to include 12.55 crore voters. This would mean the deletion of around 2.89 crore names compared to the pre-SIR tally. Those whose names are excluded will have an opportunity to challenge the removal after the draft rolls are released. The details of the electoral roll draft can be checked at https://voters.eci.gov.in.
If your name is not on the list, you need to submit an objection to the EC.
If the objection is to be found valid against the name in the draft list, it may be removed from the list.
You can submit these forms either online at voters.eci.gov.in or the ECINET app. The offline includes paying a visit to the booth level officer (BLO).
You can follow the below mentioned steps to check your name on the electoral draft roll:
UP Congress president Ajay Rai said the time allotted for the SIR exercise was short.
"This is a completely hasty decision. The way the SIR process was started by giving only one month in a large state like Uttar Pradesh is unreasonable," Rai told news agency PTI.
"They gave one month even to a small state like Kerala. Uttar Pradesh should have been given at least five to six months, as was done earlier in 2002–03... Had it been done that way, the booth level officers (BLOs) would not have been under such pressure and suicides could have been avoided." He said the exercise would have been smooth had more time been allotted to it and alleged that the rights of the people of UP had been violated," he added.
- Claims and objections will be received from January 6 to February 6.
- Resolution of claims will be done by authorities from January 26 to February 27.
- The final publication of the voter list will be on March 6.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said even among the names on the draft list, mapping could not be done for 8.5%. “Such people will start receiving notices from today. The notice will contain a list of documents that they can submit for inclusion in the final list,” he said.
With 2.89 crore names deleted, the state recorded the highest number of deletions (18.7%) due to deaths, permanent migration or multiple registrations.
Those who shifted were 2.17 crore (14.06%), those who were registered in more than one place were 25.57 lakh voters (1.65%), while deceased voters comprised 46.23 lakh (2.99%).
If your name has been excluded from the draft electoral roll, you can fill up Form 6 online again or visit your local Electoral Registration Office (ERO). To make corrections in entries, you can fill up Form 8.
The claims and objections window will be open from January 6 to February 6.
Last month, UP CEO Rinwa was quoted as saying by news agency PTI: “Untraceable or missing voters who figure among the deleted, would need to show proof of inclusion in the 2003 SIR list or any of the ECI prescribed documents for getting names added to the voters’ list."
The claims and objections window will be open from January 6 to February 6, Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said after publishing draft electoral roll.
To check you names in the electoral roll draft can be checked at https://voters.eci.gov.in.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has released the draft electoral roll for Uttar Pradesh. Out of 15.44 crore voters, names of 12.55 crore (81.30 per cent) have been retained in draft electoral roll, Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said.
You should keep the following documents handy, according to the ECI's directions:
Last month, UP CEO Rinwa was quoted as saying by news agency PTI: “Untraceable or missing voters who figure among the deleted, would need to show proof of inclusion in the 2003 SIR list or any of the ECI prescribed documents for getting names added to the voters’ list.
Rinwa said that the ECI will also invite those who object to the inclusion of the nearly 12.55 crore names in the draft electoral roll. These objections can be filed by filling out Form 7.
If the objection is to be found valid against the name in the draft list, it may be removed from the list.
You can submit these forms either online at voters.eci.gov.in or the ECINET app. The offline includes paying a visit to the booth level officer (BLO).
The Election Commission has reasoned that the usual yearly revisions can no longer fix what it calls “legacy data” issues — errors built up as India has not had a nationwide house-to-house revision since 2002-2004. In those two decades, voter rolls across states have accumulated
With major state elections due in 2026, the ECI wants a voter list that is legally defensible, transparent and free of inflated numbers.
As the Election Commission of India (ECI) rolls out its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across multiple states, the term ‘SIR’ has been trending across India… and along with it a lot of questions and confusion. The exercise first began in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections and has now expanded to 13 states and Union Territories in the country. For many, this has raised a simple but urgent question: What is SIR and why does every voter suddenly have to fill out a new form?
As the Election Commission on Tuesday postponed publication of the Uttar Pradesh draft roll from Wednesday to January 6, provisional data accessed by The Indian Express shows the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls could lead to the deletion of nearly 2.89 crore electors or 18.70% of the electorate from the rolls.
This is the third change in the SIR schedule in Uttar Pradesh since the exercise started in 12 states/Union Territories on October 27. Uttar Pradesh is set to be the state with the highest deletions, with Tamil Nadu (15%) and Gujarat (14.5%) coming in second and third, as per the states’ respective draft rolls published earlier this month.
A future historian might record this cruel irony: Just when women were beginning to be recognised as political actors in their own right, the largest-ever disenfranchisement of women occurred in India. She might wonder why and how it happened in the third decade of the 21st century, when the whole world had taken women’s suffrage for granted. This is where she would encounter “Special Intensive Revision” of electoral rolls.
Now that we have the data from all states except Uttar Pradesh for the second phase of the SIR, it is clear that we are witnessing the single biggest reversal of decades of gains on women’s electoral participation. In the last two decades, we have seen improvement in women’s enrolment, in turnout of women voters and a distinct focus on women’s issues. The SIR threatens to take us back to the basic struggle for women’s voting rights.
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