SIR: Over 99.32 lakh names struck off voter list in Karnataka

A Booth Level Officer (BLOs) verifies an enumeration form during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive in Bengaluru on July 21, 2026. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J

Karnataka’s final electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has been published, with constituency-wise lists of voters now available on the Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) website. The list can be accessed here. 

The State’s electorate now stands at 4,55,00,011, down from 5,54,32,314 voters before the SIR began. More than 99.32 lakh names have been knocked off the rolls, as part of the exercise that was launched with the stated aim of ensuring that every eligible voter was included and every ineligible name removed to achieve a ‘pure, clean electorate’. 

At the draft stage, the electorate had shrunk from 5.54 crore to 4.46 crore, with over 1.07 crore names deleted. The final roll has seen a net addition of 8.64 lakh names compared with the draft roll. Net additions overall remain far lower than the number of names deleted at the draft stage, leaving close to one crore fewer voters on the final roll than before the SIR.

The final electorate comprises over 2.25 crore male voters, 2.29 crore female voters, and 2,841 third-gender voters. It includes over 6.83 lakh young voters aged 18-19, and more than 3.92 lakh voters aged above 85. 

Those who applied for inclusion through Form-6 after September 23, the end of the claims and objections period, will be included in supplementary lists, which will be published every quarter after the SIR. The names of those who applied for inclusion within the claims and objections window will be included in the final roll. 

The office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka has said that an enrolment drive will be taken up after the SIR to add genuine voters whose names were deleted during the exercise. 

Published - October 27, 2026 11:32 am IST