Bengaluru Final Rolls List 59 Lakh Voters After SIR

Bengaluru’s final electoral rolls list 59,08,151 voters, down from about 1.03 crore before the Special Intensive Revision, with 46.88 lakh names placed in deletion categories, according to figures released by the Greater Bengaluru Authority. The final roll was published on October 27. The resulting electorate is about 43% smaller than before the revision. The Greater Bengaluru Authority’s data covers 28 Assembly constituencies within its limits. Of the 46.88 lakh names classified under ASDDO, meaning absent, shifted, dead, duplicate and others, 32.74 lakh were listed as permanently shifted, 7.27 lakh as absent and 3.19 lakh as deceased. Another 63,549 were recorded as already enrolled. The remaining 3.04 lakh fell under “others.” Bengaluru South had the largest number of names in the ASDDO category, at 3.63 lakh, followed by Mahadevapura with 2.96 lakh, Bommanahalli with 2.65 lakh and K R Puram with 2.58 lakh. These figures describe the categories in the final roll and do not establish how many people removed were eligible voters. The final electorate includes 28,68,670 male voters, 30,40,431 female voters and 674 third-gender voters, according to the roll figures reported by...