Indian States Update Electoral Rolls Through Intensive Revisions

Indian election officials in Uttarakhand and Karnataka are executing Special Intensive Revisions (SIR) to purify state electoral rolls. In Uttarakhand, the Election Department of Uttarakhand released a draft electoral roll on July 14, 2026, showing a decrease to 71,33,785 voters from previously registered totals of approximately 79.6 lakh. This drop follows the removal of 8.26 lakh voters listed as deceased, absent, or shifted, while another 19 lakh records were flagged for discrepancies.

Uttarakhand has opened a claims and objections period from July 14 to August 13 for citizens to correct records using Forms 6, 7, and 8, with the final roll due September 15. The state also increased its number of polling stations from 11,733 to 12,543.

Simultaneously, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka reported that its revision process, running from June 30 to July 29, 2026, has distributed 5,27,15,809 enumeration forms to 95.10 percent of eligible voters. About 36 percent of these forms have been digitized. Karnataka officials identified 1,189,525 electors in the 'Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate or Otherwise' category, including 319,822 deceased voters and 679,906 permanently shifted voters.