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As Gujarat moves towards finalising its electoral rolls, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process has resulted successful 6.88 lakh applications for the summation of names and 9.88 lakh requests for deletion, predetermination officials said connected Thursday (January 29, 2026).
The draught electoral rolls were published connected December 19 aft the completion of the enumeration signifier of the SIR, according to a connection issued by the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Gujarat. Voters person been allowed to question inclusion oregon deletion of names by submitting the prescribed forms.
As of January 28, predetermination authorities received 6.88 lakh Forms 6 and 6A for inclusion of names, portion 9.88 lakh Form 7 applications were submitted for deletion from the rolls, the connection said.
Officials said the last determination connected additions and deletions volition beryllium taken aft verification of the applications and supporting documents.
The SIR workout has led to a important pruning of the elector database successful the State. A full of 73.73 lakh voters were removed during the revision, reducing the fig of registered voters successful the draught rolls to 4.34 crore from 5.08 crore earlier.
Of the 73,73,327 voters removed, 18,07,278 were recovered to beryllium deceased, 9,69,662 were absent, 40,25,553 had migrated retired of Gujarat, and 3,81,470 were registered astatine much than 1 location. In addition, 1,89,364 voters were deleted for different reasons, officials said.
