In Bengal, seats with high Muslim population have lowest number of unmapped voters

Assembly constituencies successful West Bengal with a higher percent of Muslim colonisation person a little stock of unmapped voters successful the archetypal signifier of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful West Bengal, a survey by Kolkata-based SABAR Institute has found.

The Election Commission of India connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) published draught electoral rolls of West Bengal pursuing the SIR, with names of 58 lakh electors deleted from the existing elector lists successful the State.

The investigation recovered that 20 Assembly constituencies with the highest stock of unmapped colonisation person an mean Muslim colonisation of 13.75%, which is overmuch little than the State’s mean Muslim colonisation of 27% successful the past Census.

The Assembly constituencies with a higher fig of unmapped colonisation are mostly located successful Kolkata and adjoining districts specified arsenic North 24 Parganas and Howrah. In Kolkata, the Assembly constituencies are Kolkata Port, Bhabanipur, Rashbehari, and Kolkata Port. In North 24 Parganas, the constituencies are Bongaon Uttar, Ashoknagar, Jagatdal, Rajarhat Gopalpur, Bangaon Uttar Madhyamgram, Dum Dum Uttar and Panihati.

The researchers of SABAR Institute pointed retired that, successful contrast, the apical 20 Assembly constituencies with the lowest stock of unmapped colonisation amusement a precise antithetic representation and person a important fig of Muslim voters.

These Assembly constituencies see Domkal (which has 1 of the highest Muslim populations successful the State astatine astir 85%), Suti, Hariharpara and Rejinagar – each 4 located successful Murshidabad, a territory wherever the Muslim colonisation is astir 70%; Ratua and Sujapur successful Malda with a precocious Muslim population; Magrahat Purba, Magrahat Paschim, Patharpratima and Mandirbazar located successful South 24 Parganas, and Moyna and Kanthi Uttar successful Purba Medinipur district.

The researchers said that connected an average, these constituencies person a Muslim colonisation of astir 40%, acold supra the State’s mean of 27%, which suggests that constituencies with higher Muslim colonisation person little stock of unmapped voters.

Ashin Chakraborty, researcher astatine the institute, said the information which has emerged from the archetypal signifier of the SIR situation is simply a ascendant governmental narrative. “For years, a conception of large and influential leaders has claimed that Muslim infiltrators person entered West Bengal and are voting illegally. But this data-based grounds intelligibly shows that the world is different,” helium said.

Mr. Chakraborty suggested that Muslims are little apt to beryllium affected by elector mapping issues due to the fact that astir person the required documents. “If the Special Intensive Revision leads to large-scale exclusion, it volition not beryllium Muslims who are deed the hardest. The information amusement that Matuas are apt to look the maximum exclusion, arsenic they are disproportionately represented among unmapped voters,” helium added.

The Matuas are a societal radical mostly comprising Namashudras who person migrated from Bangladesh implicit the past respective decades. The assemblage of Hindu refugees, mostly residing successful North 24 Parganas and Nadia district, has been apprehensive of the SIR since they deficiency bequest data. Fears implicit the SIR have, implicit past fewer weeks, prompted the Matuas to use for citizenship nether the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.