18 Mar 2024
Neta·ResumeSpecial Intensive Revision, Phase I. 4 figures on record from Jun 2025 to Sep 2025.
A draft roll is not the final roll — names still return through claims and appeals.
The draft roll is published after enumeration. Names left off it can come back through claims and objections, and new electors are added, before the final roll is published. So the share left off the draft is usually larger than the net change from the pre-SIR roll to the final roll. Where a final roll isn't in the record yet, only the draft measure can be shown.
Figures run to Sep 2026. Several final rolls were still pending then.
Phase 1 pilot SIR, qualifying date 1 July 2025. Final figure of 7,41,92,357 excludes 1,63,619 service voters (total incl. service voters: 7,43,55,976, same entry). ECI's PN of 13 Nov 2025 (ECI/PN/353/2025) reportedly claimed zero appeals and a final count of 7,45,26,858, per numbers-bihar-final-roll-2025-09-30's notes; that press note returned 'Access denied' on the date checked and has no Wayback copy, so those two figures are unverified and are not used as the stage value here.
left_off: ECI's outcome table rounds this to the nearest lakh; the draft-roll figure it also reports rounds separately, so the two do not subtract to exactly this count.
| Stage | Electors | As of | Source | Tier | Flags |
|---|
| Before the SIR | 7,89,69,844 | 2025-06-24 | Bihar roll stood at 7,89,69,844 electors when SIR began | TIER 1 · PRIMARY | — |
| Draft roll | 7,24,00,000 | 2025-08-01 | Bihar draft roll published with 7.24 crore electors; 65 lakh left out | TIER 1 · PRIMARY | rounded |
| Final roll | 7,41,92,357 | 2025-09-30 | Bihar final roll: about 7.42 crore electors, 47 lakh fewer than June | TIER 1 · PRIMARY | — |
Every bar starts at zero. Differences are simple subtraction of the cited figures. A computed stage's method is in its note.
Association for Democratic Reforms, Yogendra Singh Yadav, Manoj Jha, Mahua Moitra and the People's Union for Civil Liberties petitioned the Supreme Court within days of the Commission's 24 June 2025 order starting a Special Intensive Revision of Bihar's electoral rolls, arguing the exercise risked mass, arbitrary disenfranchisement. The Court heard the case on an expedited basis through July 2025 to January 2026 and reserved judgment on 29 January 2026, delivering a unanimous verdict on 27 May 2026 that upheld the SIR and traced the Commission's power to it to Section 21(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, while issuing directions on Aadhaar as an identity document, disclosure of 'logical discrepancy' lists and other procedural safeguards.
Case-level entry only. The Aadhaar direction, the 29 Jan 2026 logical-discrepancy order and the 27 May 2026 judgment are already recorded as separate order entries in sir-rules.json: sir-rules-sc-suggests-aadhaar-epic-ration (2025-07-10), sir-rules-sc-deleted-list-aadhaar-claims (2025-08-14), sir-rules-sc-parties-aadhaar-claims (2025-08-22), sir-rules-claims-after-deadline (2025-09-01), sir-rules-aadhaar-12th-document (2025-09-09), sir-rules-sc-logical-discrepancy-hearing (2026-01-29), sir-rules-sc-sir-judgment (2026-05-27), and numbers-bihar-sc-366-lakh-2025-10-07. Not duplicated here. scobserver's own hearing table misdates two entries (it lists '29 January 2025' and '8 September 2025' where context makes clear it means 2026 and closer to the recorded 2025-09-09/2025-09-01 Aadhaar orders); dates used here follow the already-verified entries in sir-rules.json rather than scobserver's table.