On Friday, 10th April, the final electoral roll for Uttar Pradesh was released after the completion of a 166-day Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with over 2.05 crore names removed from the voter list. The revision, which began on 27th October, 2025 and ended on April 10, covered all 75 districts and 403 assembly constituencies across the state.
Before the exercise started, the total number of voters stood at 15.44 crore. After the revision, the final count has come down to 13.39 crore. The deleted names account for 13.27 per cent of the earlier voter base. Of the final list, 7.3 crore voters are male (54.54 per cent), 6.09 crore are female (45.46 per cent), and 4,206 are from the third gender.
State Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa, while speaking in Lucknow, said that 17.63 lakh voters in the final list fall in the 18-19 age group. He also pointed out that the gender ratio has improved from 824 in the draft roll released on January 6 to 834 in the final list.
In the draft roll published earlier, about 2.88 crore names had been removed, leaving 12.55 crore voters. During the claims and objections phase, along with hearings on notices issued to voters with missing or mismatched details, another 8.15 lakh names were deleted. Out of these, around 3.5 lakh people did not give satisfactory replies to the notices. At the same time, 84.28 lakh new names were added to the roll.
Officials said that around 1.04 crore voters were found to be “non-mapped”, while 2.22 crore cases had logical discrepancies. Notices were issued from January 14, and hearings were completed at 5,621 centres by March 27, 2026.
The entire process involved 75 district election officers, 403 electoral registration officers, over 12,700 assistant officers, more than 18,000 supervisors, and 1.77 lakh booth-level officers. In addition, over 5.82 lakh booth-level agents from recognised political parties also helped in the process.
Rinwa said that no name was removed without proper procedure. He added that if a voter’s name is missing from the final list, it could be due to a Form-6 request or a decision taken after a proper hearing. He also said that people can appeal first to the district magistrate within 15 days, and then to the Chief Electoral Officer within 30 days if they are not satisfied, as per the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
