Who was taken off India's electoral rolls

The constituencies page searches every constituency the site has figures for, in every state at once. Each state with a page of its own also has a finder on that page, linked below, which shows the figures for one constituency or district and gives a link to them that can be sent on.

• Voters can see whether their constituency or district lost many names, and read what to do if their name was left off.
• Journalists find every figure with its source, a link to every constituency and district, and the tables to download.
• Lawyers and courts find the Commission's orders, the notices, the court cases and the disputes, each with its document.
• Parties and candidates can compare the names left off in each constituency with its winning margin, and follow the Form 7 disputes.
• Researchers and students find workbooks with every column explained, and a method page for every state.
• Election officials can see where each state's revision stands, and what has and has not been published.

If you hold a list or a table about the revision that is not on this site, such as a Chief Electoral Officer's table, a court filing or a count kept by an organisation that helped electors, send it here with its source. It will be checked against that source, and only counts from it will be published.

The rules changed while the revision was under way. The Commission issued fresh orders. The Supreme Court made Aadhaar one of the documents an elector could show and, in West Bengal, gave disputed claims to judicial officers. Many states had their dates moved after they were announced. How the revision was run sets out every order and judgment in date order, each linked to its document, and draws every state's schedule as it was set and as it was moved.

The Indian Express reported that two of the three Election Commissioners objected on record, at least 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken in the Commission's name without them. Inside the Commission sets out that account by date, with what the Commission said in reply.

An electoral roll is the list of people who may vote in a constituency. Each polling station has its own part of the roll, and a person whose name is not on it cannot vote there.

The revision checked every name on the roll at once. Officers went house by house, and every elector had to fill in an enumeration form, a fresh form with their details, and hand it back. Only those whose forms came back were put on the draft roll, the first new roll the revision published. A name that had been on the roll for years was left off the draft if its form did not come back in time. For each name left off, the officer recorded a reason, such as dead, shifted, absent or enrolled more than once. Some electors also had to show documents, and some who stayed on the draft were later sent a notice to prove their entry.

After the draft came claims and objections. Anyone left off could ask to be put back with Form 6, the same form a new voter uses to enrol. Anyone could object to a name on the roll with Form 7. The final roll was published at the end, after the claims and objections.

The revision ran in three phases. Bihar went first, from June 2025. Twelve states and union territories followed on an order of October 2025, with house visits from November, and the rest of the country from May 2026, except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Assam had a different kind of revision.

The revision decides who can vote. The lists behind it are public, but they are hard to read. They come as thousands of files, one for each polling part, often scanned, in the language of the state. The totals the Commission announces do not say who was removed or how old they were. Nor do they say whether the removals in a seat were larger than its winning margin, the votes between the winner and the runner-up.

This site reads those lists and figures and turns them into counts. It shows where removals were heaviest, whether women were removed more often than men, and what reason was written against the names. A reason on a list is what the officer wrote down, and nobody checked it. The counts can show where removals fell and on whom. They cannot show why any one name was removed, or whether that removal was right.

• Only counts are published here. No name, EPIC number or address appears anywhere on this site.
• Religion and caste are guessed from names, so they are given as ranges.
• Every page opens with what the data shows and ends with its limits and with questions readers might ask. The method pages give every source.
• The pages can be read in English, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali from the menu at the top. The translations have not yet been reviewed. Where they differ, the English page is correct.

Research by ImpactMojo. The tables behind the charts, the reports and the slides are on the Downloads page, which the Downloads button on every page opens.

What has been added, and when, is on What's New. Every correction to a figure or finding is on Corrections. If a figure looks wrong, or you have a suggestion, tell us through the feedback form.

Thanks

We thank Pallavi Nayak, Animesh Mukherjee, Nivedita Biswas and Manomay Ghoshal for their comments on drafts of this site.