Bihar's final voter list released; 47 lakh electors removed during SIR – full details here

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday published the final electoral roll of poll-bound Bihar. The list is available on the poll panel website and voters can check their name in the rolls by clicking on the link voters.eci.gov.in.

The state has about 7.42 crore voters as per the final list published on September 30. There were 7.24 crore electors in the draft rolls published in August. This was after deleting 65 lakh voters from the voter list, which comprised 7.89 crore electors as on 24 June 2025.

In addition to the 65 lakh names removed at the time of publishing the draft roll in August, another 3.66 lakh ‘ineligible’ voters have been removed while 21.53 lakh new voters have been added, taking the final voters in Bihar to 7.4 crore. This means about 47 lakh voters have been deleted from the 24 June list.

The poll panel is likely to follow it up with the announcement of the election schedule of the key state next week.

The final voter list of Bihar has been published following the conclusion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which was held after a gap of 22 years. The draft electoral rolls were published on August 1 and were open for "claims and objections" by individuals and political parties till September 1.

The SIR has come under sharp criticism from opposition parties, who have claimed that it will disenfranchise crores of genuine citizens of their voting rights.

1,63,600 voters added in Patna

According to the final roll, 14 assembly seats of Patna have 48,15,294 voters, which is 1,63,600 more than the total number of electors, 46,51,694, included in the draft list published on 1 August 2025, the Patna district magistrate's office said in a post on X.

The Commission has asserted that it will not allow any eligible citizen to be left out of the voter list and at the same time not let any ineligible person be on the list.

The poll authority is visiting Patna on October 4 and 5 to take stock of the poll preparedness. The schedule for the assembly elections is likely to be announced next week, sources said.

The first phase of the elections is likely to be held soon after the Chhath festival in late October. Four hundred and seventy observers are being deployed by the EC for Bihar and some assembly bypolls.

A briefing of general, police and expenditure observers is also set to take place on October 3.

The term of the 243-member Bihar Assembly ends on November 22. The last assembly elections in Bihar were held in three phases amid the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(With agency inputs)