The Election Commission EC on Friday published final electoral roll after completing the month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, ahead of assembly elections that are scheduled to be held later this year.
According to the EC, there were 7.89 crore electors in the state as of June 24, 2025. However, the election body received Enumeration Forms (EFs) for 7.24 crore electors.
In total, 65,64,075 EFs were not received and they were not included in the draft, it said.
As per the data, there were 26.27 lakh electors in Sitamarhi, but the ECI received 23.82 lakh of EFs, in Araria, out of 20.82 lakh electors, the ECI received 19.24 lakh EFs.
Similarly, Patna district had 50.47 lakh electors as on June 24, 2025, but the ECI received 46.51 lakh EFs. Gaya had 31.47 lakh electors, but EC received 29.01 lakh EFs, as per the data.
Meanwhile, there were 22.68 lakh electors in Purnia; but the poll body received 19.94 lakh EFs. Darbhanga had 30.03 lakh electors, but only 27.99 EFs were received by the ECI.
Siwan had 26.09 electors, but the poll body received 23.87 lakh EFs. Out of 26.74 lakh electors in Vaishali, the ECI received 24.48 EFs. In Begusari, it received 20.77 lakh EFs out of 22.45 lakh electors.
The SIR began in Bihar in June, and the voters have time till September 1 to approach the authorities against wrongful deletion of names.
This process concluded by July 25. In the first stage of SIR, voters were provided with “enumeration forms”, either by booth-level officers (BLO) or booth-level agents (BLA) nominated by political parties, which they were to return after putting their signatures and appending documents acceptable as proof of identity.
