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The electorate successful Gujarat, Lakshadweep and Puducherry shrunk by astir 69 lakh aft the completion of the peculiar intensive revision of voters' list, information shared by the Election Commission connected Friday (February 20, 2026) shows.
Gujarat, Lakshadweep and Puducherry precocious published their respective last electoral rolls arsenic portion of the canvass rotation cleanup exercise.
Before SIR was announced connected October 27 past year, the combined electorate of Gujarat and the 2 Union Territories stood astatine 5.19 crore. After work of last rolls, their full elector basal came down to 4.50 crore — a nett alteration of 68.9 lakh.
In Gujarat, portion the electorate earlier the SIR stood astatine 5.08 crore, it shrunk to 4.40 crore — a nett alteration of 68.12 lakh. In percent terms, a nett alteration of 13.40 per cent.
In Lakshadweep. earlier the canvass rotation cleanup exercise, the elector basal stood astatine 57,813. But aft the work of the last electoral rolls, it went down to 57,607 — a nett alteration of 206 electors. In percent terms, a nett alteration of 0.36%.
In poll-bound Puducherry, the full fig of electors earlier SIR commenced was implicit 10.21 lakh. It shrunk to 9.44 lakh erstwhile the last rolls were published -- a nett alteration of 7.57% successful percent terms.
While the exercise, which kept the EC successful the news, was completed successful Bihar, it is ongoing successful 12 states and Union territories with astir 60 crore electors.
The remaining 40 crore electors volition beryllium covered successful these 17 States and 5 Union territories.
In Assam, a 'special revision', alternatively of SIR, was completed connected February 10.
Due to a assortment of reasons, SIR successful the 9 States and 3 Union Territories person seen predominant tweaking successful schedules.
Like Bihar, governmental parties person approached the Supreme Court challenging SIR successful Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
