Election Commission of India Extends Voter List Deadlines in Delhi and Maharashtra

The Election Commission of India has revised the schedules for the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Delhi and Maharashtra, extending the publication of final voter lists to November 4. The revisions aim to ensure polling stations are rationalised to serve a maximum of 1,200 electors each.

In Delhi, the commission pushed the final deadline for the third time since the exercise began on June 30. Draft electoral rolls will be published on August 31, followed by a claims and objections window running through September 30. Officials will process these claims until October 29. During door-to-door verification, over 47 lakh voters—roughly 33 percent of the 1.45 crore pre-revision database—were marked as uncollectable due to non-digitized forms and will be removed from the August 31 rolls.

Similarly, the commission extended deadlines in Maharashtra following a request from the state's chief electoral officer. The draft roll will also be published on August 31, with claims and objections accepted until September 30. This moves the final publication date back from the original October 7 deadline. The process follows house-to-house visits that ended on August 17; of the state's 9.78 crore electors, 7.71 crore submitted forms while 2.07 crore were deemed ineligible for the draft roll.