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Around 30 lakh electors successful West Bengal person been incapable to found a nexus to the 2002 voters’ database and are apt to beryllium called for proceeding aft the work of the draught electoral roll, sources successful the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal said connected Thursday (December 11, 2025), the past time of the enumeration signifier of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision exercise.
This comprises astir 4% of the 7.6 crore electors who were connected the State’s electoral rotation arsenic of October 27, 2025. Sources said the fig of electors to beryllium called for proceeding is expected to summation aft the draught rotation is published, based connected further factors.
These figures person been cited based connected information collected till December 11, the past time of the enumeration signifier of the SIR exercise.
Meanwhile, a full of 29.3 lakh voters (38.32%) has linked themselves to their ain names successful the 2002 electoral list, portion 38.4 lakh voters (50.18%) person linked themselves to their parents and grandparents during enumeration. However, sources successful the CEO’s bureau said that familial linkages arsenic claimed by electors successful their enumeration forms volition beryllium subjected to scrutiny and verification to weed retired immoderate discrepancies.
As of Thursday (December 11, 2025), the fig of “uncollectable” forms connected relationship of absent, shifted, duplicate and dormant voters accrued to implicit 58 lakhs successful West Bengal, with astir 24.2 lakh electors truthful acold identified arsenic dead, according to sources. Nearly 2 lakh voters person been identified arsenic shifted and astir 1.4 lakh arsenic duplicate voters till Thursday afternoon.
Sources successful the CEO’s bureau said artificial quality is besides being utilized to observe immoderate duplicates, and discrepancies successful electors’ pictures and progeny mapping to the 2002 list.
West Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) said that reports person besides been sought from District Electoral Officers crossed the State connected high-rises, radical lodging societies, and slums with implicit 250 houses oregon 500 electors wherever caller polling booths tin beryllium proposed.
Notably, a time before, the Election Commission issued a announcement to the CEO regarding the hold successful submission of the projected rearrangement of polling booths successful the State, based connected a survey of high-rises and slums. The Commission acceptable December 31 arsenic the deadline for the connection to beryllium sent to the Commission for approval, and February 7, 2026, arsenic the day by which the rearrangement and rationalisation of polling booths successful West Bengal is to beryllium completed.
On Thursday (December 11, 2025), State predetermination officials besides met with high-ranking officials of instrumentality enforcement agencies including to sermon information measures for the upcoming legislative elections successful West Bengal successful 2026. According to sources successful the CEO’s office, reports person been sought for information preparation, intra-agency cooperation, and information information from earlier elections.
