Mizoram electoral rolls see 78,442 deletions

Mizoram’s electoral rolls underwent a significant change during the SIR exercise, with 78,442 names deleted and 39,243 new electors added, taking the state’s final voter count to 8.35 lakh, a senior official said on Monday.

The final roll also recorded the state’s first third gender elector, alongside 4 lakh male and 4.32 lakh female voters, according to State Chief Electoral Officer @Garima Gupta.

The SIR was launched across all districts on May 20, alongside 15 states and two Union Territories covered in the third phase of the nationwide revision exercise.

Before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the state had 8,75 lakh registered electors, all of whom were provided enumeration forms, Gupta said. Of these, 8,28,906 forms were collected, while 46,162 remained uncollected and the voters’ names were subsequently deleted, she said.

“The draft electoral rolls published on July 4 contained 8,28,906 electors.

During the claims and objections period, which ended on 2 September, 32,280 more names were removed while 39,243 voters were added, resulting in a net increase of 6,963 electors or 0.84 per cent from the draft rolls, in the final rolls,” Gupta told a news conference.