Off the Roll publishes the official counts from the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls, state by state, taken from the tables the Chief Electoral Officers and the Election Commission published. This page explains how the site is laid out and how to read what it shows.
If your name or your family's name was left off
Go to Removed from the Roll? What to Do. It sets out each step the law allows, from Form 6 to the appeals and free legal aid, with the document each step rests on, and lists organisations that have helped electors.
Finding a place
The green "Find your constituency" button at the bottom of every page opens a search over every constituency and district with a figure anywhere on the site. The Search button at the top, or Ctrl K, or "/", searches every page, constituency, district and dispute by name.
The Places menu at the top lists All India and every state and union territory, grouped by zone. Names in bold have a full analysis of their own. The others share one summary page each.
The Start Here menu beside it holds the pages most readers come for: the SIR in brief, the constituency finder, help for electors, protests and disputes, RTI replies, case studies, further reading, women, and the SIR in numbers.
How a page is laid out
Every page opens with a short numbered list of what the data shows. Charts, maps and tables follow, each under a heading that has its own link. A line near the end says what the page's figures cannot show, and the page closes with questions readers might ask. On a phone, the row of tabs under the header becomes a bar with arrows for the previous and next section.
Under every chart there is a row of buttons to save it as a picture, download its numbers as a spreadsheet file, share it on WhatsApp or copy a link to it.
Reading a figure
States did not all publish the same thing, so each page says which count it uses. Most use the names left off the draft roll, per 100 electors on the roll before the revision. Some states published only their rolls, and their pages measure the fall in the roll between two dates, which also takes in ordinary deaths, moves and new voters. A count from one state is never ranked against a different kind of count from another.
The reasons beside a name (dead, shifted, absent, enrolled elsewhere) are what the officer wrote down. Nobody checked them. Religion and caste are guessed from names and are given as ranges.
Comparisons with winning margins say how many seats had more names left off than the margin. That shows the removals were large enough to decide a seat. It does not show that they did.
Sources, downloads and corrections
Every analysis has a method page naming each source table and what the figures cannot show. Downloads holds a workbook for every place, a zip of every table, and the reports and slides.
If a figure looks wrong, use Feedback, the link in every footer. Every correction of substance is listed on Corrections. What has been added, by date, is on What's New.
Languages and privacy
The site can be read in English, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali from the language menu. The translations have not yet been checked by a native reader, and where they differ, the English page is correct. The full reports and some detailed pages are in English only and say so.
No name, EPIC number or address appears anywhere on the site. What the site records about visits, and what it does not, is set out on Terms and Privacy.