Overview
- The Election Commission’s draft roll, published on July 5, reported a net reduction of roughly 2.01 million electors (about 6%), bringing the state total to about 31.3 million.
- The deletions include an official breakdown of causes with about 832,000 names marked deceased and about 1,007,000 listed as absent or shifted, plus reported duplicates and other removals.
- Ganjam and Cuttack had the largest absolute district-level cuts while Malkangiri Assembly constituency recorded the highest single-seat deletion of 27,653 names.
- State parties including the Biju Janata Dal and Congress have challenged the scale of removals and called for scrutiny, and officials say a second SIR stage and claims process will allow voters to seek restoration.
- Analysts warn the lack of a contemporaneous pre-SIR district and constituency summary means percentage comparisons used so far rely on an earlier roll and could change when the final verified roll is published.