Overview
- Uttar Pradesh’s draft roll, published January 6, retains 12.55 crore electors after deleting 18.7% for reasons including absent or shifted status (14.06%), duplicate enrollment (1.65%) and death (2.99%).
- Across the 12 states and Union territories in SIR Phase 2, elector counts fell from about 50.9 crore to 44.4 crore, with deletions placed in absent, shifted and dead/duplicate categories.
- UP authorities will issue notices to voters whose names could not be mapped to earlier rolls, with reported figures differing between 1.4 crore and 10.4 million, and listed electors asked to furnish documents for verification.
- Deletion rates vary sharply by district, led by Lucknow (about 30%), Ghaziabad (28.8%), Balrampur (26%) and Kanpur Nagar (25.5%), while Bundelkhand districts such as Lalitpur and Hamirpur report the lowest shares.
- Claims and objections can be filed through February 6 with disposal targeted by February 27, as parties review the draft lists and file inclusion requests, including 128 submissions on day one led by the BJP.