Overview

• In Bihar’s final roll published on September 30, the voter count stands at 74.2 million, roughly 4.7 million fewer than before the Special Intensive Revision began.
• Official Bihar CEO records show 9,968 of 366,742 draft-roll deletions carried no cited reason, with the rest attributed to death, shifting or duplication and clusters reported in border districts such as Supaul and Kishanganj.
• The Election Commission update logged 1,672,513 removals with detailed reasons—631,195 deaths, 809,948 shifts and 231,370 duplicates—alongside 2.9 million accepted new inclusions and high acceptance rates for both Form 6 claims and Form 7 objections.
• The Supreme Court on October 7 sought details on roughly 366,000 additional deletions, emphasized rule-based hearings, permitted standard IDs as supporting documents and directed legal aid for excluded voters.
• In West Bengal, initial ECI checks indicate nearly half of around 13,000 listed centenarian voters are deceased as the state readies SIR paperwork by October 15, drawing strong objections and protest threats from the ruling Trinamool Congress.