LUCKNOW: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday published the draft electoral rolls of Uttar Pradesh under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, during which around 28.9 million (2.89 crore) names were dropped from the rolls.
The total number of voters in the SIR draft rolls has now come down to 12.56 crore from 15.44 crore, marking the deletion of around 18.70% of names.
After rationalising polling booths, the ECI restricted the number of voters at each polling booth from 1,500 to 1,200 and added 15,030 new booths in the state, CEO Navdeep Rinwa announced here on Tuesday.
The number of polling stations in Uttar Pradesh will increase by 15,030 from 1,62,486 to 1,77,516. On December 23, the ECI approved the proposal for the allocation of polling stations based on a limit of 1,200 voters per booth across 403 assembly constituencies in 75 UP districts. The allocation was based on the 2024 voter list.
According to data as of December 11, when the second round of the enumeration phase concluded, the number of uncollectible voters in the state stood at 2.96 стоге (29.6 million). The figure dropped to 2.89 crore (28.9 million) voters as of December 26 data, after the third roundof the enumeration phase.
Among the 28.9 million uncollectible voters, 12.9 million (8.40%) were categorised as permanently shifted, 4.6 million (2.99%) as deceased, 2.54 million (1.65%) as duplicate, and 7.95 million (5.15%) as untraceable, according to the available data. Another 774,472 voters (0.50%) had not returned enumeration forms after collecting them from booth-level officers.
CEO Navdeep Rinwa said that soft and hard copies of the draft SIR rolls were handed over to all political parties on Tuesday.
Agencies