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Tamil Nadu had much than 5.67 crore electors arsenic the Election Commission of India published the last electoral rolls of the State connected Monday (February 23, 2026) aft the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
The database includes 2,89,60,838 women, 2,77,38,925 men, and 7,617 third-gender electors. Since the work of the draught rolls past December, 27.53 lakh eligible electors person been included and 4.23 lakh ineligible electors deleted. In total, the electorate went up by astir 24 lakh since the draught rolls were published.
About 74 lakh entries person been deleted since October past erstwhile the EC froze the rolls that had 6.41 crore electors. When the draught rolls were published successful December past year, determination were 5.43 crore voters. During the claims and objections period, 27,85,195 Form 6 applications were submitted and 27,53,796 of them were accepted. For objections and deletions, 4,38,425 forms were submitted and 4,23,172 of them were accepted.
The Sholinganallur Assembly constituency in Chengalpattu district continues to person the highest fig of electors, with 5,36,991, and the Harbour constituency successful Chennai territory has the lowest fig of voters, with 1,16,896.
Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik disclosed these details aft the the last rolls were published. At a property conference, she said the fig of electors successful the property radical of 18-19 were 12.51 lakh. The fig of electors marked arsenic persons with disablement was 4.63 lakh. The last rolls besides person 3.99 lakh senior national electors (85+).
Electors could cheque their names on https://elections.tn.gov.in where the last rolls person been uploaded. Appeals against the determination of the Electoral Registration Officer could beryllium filed earlier the District Magistrate wrong 15 days nether Section 24(a) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, work with Rule 27 of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.
“Even now, you could taxable Form 6 for inclusion oregon forms if you privation immoderate changes. Appeal, if any, could besides beryllium made now,” said Ms. Patnaik. The archetypal entreaty could beryllium filed with the District Election Officer and the 2nd entreaty could beryllium filed with the Chief Electoral Officer. For inclusion, 1 could taxable Form 6 to the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) oregon use online.
There is nary alteration successful the fig of polling booths, which remains astatine 75,032. During the claims and objections period, astir 7.40 lakh people successful the 18-19 property radical were included, she said. To a question connected the imaginable deletion of entries from the last rolls, Ms. Patnaik said, “Continuous update is ongoing.”
As for Form 8, Ms. Patnaik said 3,400 applications were received and 3,351 were disposed of. To a question connected the dispatch of EPIC cards to the electors, she said the process had commenced and efforts were being made to present them wrong 15 days.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar volition sojourn the State connected February 26 and 27. Ms. Patnaik said helium would conscionable the District Election Officers and the Superintendents of Police concerned, the Commissioners of Police, the Inspectors-General of Police, officials of 23 enforcement agencies, and representatives of governmental parties.
