UP voter roll revision nears completion; final list to be published on April 10

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in Uttar Pradesh, conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to verify names in the electoral rolls, has been completed.

According to sources, the final publication of the electoral rolls will take place on April 10. As per estimates, the final list is expected to include over 132.5 million voters, which is around 20 million fewer than the earlier figure. Before the SIR exercise, Uttar Pradesh had approximately 152 million registered voters.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said on Saturday that preparations are underway to finalize the voter list following document verification and hearings.

He added that hearings for the 32.6 million voters who were issued notices during the SIR process were completed on Friday.

According to the Chief Electoral Officer’s office, hearings related to 100 percent of the issued notices have now concluded. The final voter list is expected to comprise more than 132.5 million names.

Under the SIR, voter lists frozen in October 2025 included 125.5 million individuals. Of these, 10.4 million names could not be matched with the 2003 voter list—either due to discrepancies in their own records or mismatches with the names of their parents or grandparents (both paternal and maternal).

The Chief Electoral Officer’s office had sought supporting documents from these individuals. The strategy of conducting hearings close to voters’ homes—and allowing family members to represent them with the required documents—proved effective.

Meanwhile, Block Level Officers (BLOs) conducted door-to-door hearings for 22.2 million voters whose entries contained “logical discrepancies.”

These included errors in names, incorrect parent details, or cases where the age difference between voters and their parents was less than 15 years. It is expected that very few names from this category will be removed, with more than 97 percent likely to be retained.

According to data from the Election Commission, 8.66 million people have submitted Form-6 applications to add their names to the voter list, while 318,000 Form-7 applications have been filed for deletion. Based on these figures, the total number of voters is expected to exceed 132.5 million.