Uttar Pradesh: 19% voters 'uncollectable' as SIR enumeration ends

LUCKNOW: UP has reported a whopping 2.89 crore oregon 18.7% of its full voters inactive falling nether the "uncollectable" class during the enumeration signifier for peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of elector rolls that ended Friday, which includes death, voters who person shifted, enrolled arsenic voters elsewhere, absentees oregon untraceable persons, and those who refused to motion oregon did not instrumentality forms.According to tentative information quoted by sources, this fig includes astir 1.3 crore voters who person permanently shifted. Besides, astir 45 lakh were deceased and astir 23 lakh voters who were enrolled astatine 2 places and declared it during SIR. About 9.4 lakh SIR forms did not instrumentality portion astir 84.5 lakh voters were absent.In Lucknow, the fig of registered voters whose details couldn't beryllium collected was 12 lakh (approx 30%), including astir 5.4 lakh who had duplicate registration and person opted to beryllium registered voters arsenic their autochthonal places portion 4.3 lakh were untraceable.

Lucknow territory has astir 39 lakh registered voters.Officials said 90% elector mapping had been completed successful the state, and nary hold of deadlines would beryllium granted. The authorities astatine contiguous has implicit 15.4 crore registered voters, and booth level officers began distributing SIR forms connected Nov 4. The archetypal deadline to implicit the enumeration process was Dec 4, but it was extended doubly and yet ended connected Friday.

The draught electoral rolls volition beryllium published connected Dec 31, 2025, with the model for claims and objections unfastened from Dec 31 to Jan 30, 2026. From Dec 31, 2025 to Feb 21, 2026, authorities volition process decisions connected forms and code claims and objections. The last elector database for UP volition beryllium released connected Feb 28, 2026.Chief electoral serviceman Navdeep Rinwa said the revision, based connected the eligibility day of Jan 1, 2026, aims to guarantee a cleanable and close electoral rotation up of upcoming elections. In the precocious concluded SIR successful different states, 43 lakh voters were untraceable successful Madhya Pradesh, 27 lakh successful Chhattisgarh and 24 lakh successful Kerala aft the enumeration stage.