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 |
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| 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.
The Commission said written notes and differing views among its members are standard deliberation before decisions, that Commissioners' suggestions were for improving processes, and that all its decisions over the past year, including the SIR, were unanimous decisions of the full Commission. It said ECINET runs under strict security and audit controls and that EROs and DEOs exercise their statutory powers of registration and deletion.
Signed by P. Pawan, Deputy Director. The note does not deal with the specific objections on Form 6, ERONet access, the 28 July work allocation order or the West Bengal appeals.
The Commission's reply says its decisions were unanimous. Section 18 of the 2023 Act sets when unanimity is required and when a majority decides.
See all charges and answers →The Supreme Court's judgment of 27 May 2026 concerned the Bihar SIR; it held that exercise traceable to Section 21(3) of the RP Act, 1950.
See all charges and answers →Section 18 of the 2023 Act sets how the three members decide: allocation of work only by unanimous decision, other business unanimously as far as possible, otherwise by majority.
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