Over 47 Lakh Names Don't Match 2002 Voter List in Bengal: EC Report

MP, KOLKATA, DEC 2, 2025: The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday informed that over 47.06 lakh names in West Bengal's voter list do not match with the 2002 voter list, based on the current pace of digitising enumeration forms submitted by booth-level officers (BLOs). According to sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, among these 47.06 lakh names, 22.45 lakh are deceased voters, 6.76 lakh are untraceable, over 16.53 lakh have shifted out of their registered addresses, while 1.07 lakh have been identified as bogus voters.

The Commission clarified that this figure is an evolving estimate, as it only reflects the digitisation status up until Tuesday (4 pm), and the exclusion figure may rise as more forms are processed. As of the updated voter roll on October 27, Bengal's electorate stands at 7,66,37,529.

“The tally of untraceable voters could shift as some individuals may be located during verification,” said an EC official. Over 97.34 percent of the enumeration forms have already been digitised in the state, amounting to 7,45,99,892.

In another significant development, 480 polling booths in the state have been identified with no uncollectable forms reported. Interestingly, 2,208 polling booths recorded 100 percent distribution, collection, and digitisation of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms on Monday. The CEO office had requested signed reports from Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), countersigned by district electoral officers (DEOs), by 10 am on Tuesday after such a large number of booths were identified with no uncollectable forms.

The figure implies that in these booths, every voter was accounted for—with no deaths, no duplicates, no permanently shifted electors, and no untraceable voters reflected in the forms.

According to fresh reports by the DEOs, most of the 480 booths are located in South 24-Parganas, including Raidighi (66 booths), Kulpi (58 booths), Mograhat (15 booths), and Patharpratima (23 booths). On Monday, the poll panel identified 7,844 polling booths where digitisation was completed with between zero and 10 uncollectable forms. The most notable cluster was the set of 2,208 booths that reported zero uncollectable entries.

For the remaining 5,636 booths, the count of uncollectable forms ranges from 1 to 10, and DEOs were instructed to reverify the entire SIR process and forward their findings to the CEO, West Bengal.