Karnataka’s final voter list has recorded a reduction of 99.32 lakh electors after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), taking the state’s electorate from 5,54,32,314 to 4,55,00,011, according to the Chief Electoral Officer’s office.
The final electoral roll was published on Tuesday following the revision exercise. The updated figures mean Karnataka now has just over 4.55 crore registered voters, compared with more than 5.54 crore before the SIR process.
The CEO’s office said the final roll includes 2,25,40,493 male voters, 2,29,12,355 female voters and 2,841 third-gender electors. The published figures provide the latest official breakdown of the state’s electorate by gender category.
The revision has resulted in a fall of nearly one crore names from the previous roll. The figures, however, do not by themselves specify how many deletions resulted from duplicate entries, deaths, migration, ineligible registrations or other corrections. The report supplied by the CEO’s office did not provide a category-wise explanation for the reduction.
The final roll also includes more than 6.83 lakh voters in the 18-19 age group, according to the CEO’s office. This group represents newly eligible voters who have been added to the electoral register after reaching voting age.
The publication of the final roll marks the completion of the SIR process in Karnataka and establishes the voter count that will be used for electoral administration until further revisions are carried out. Electoral rolls are periodically updated to add newly eligible citizens and correct or remove entries that no longer meet registration requirements.
For citizens, the immediate administrative significance of the final roll is whether their names appear correctly in the published register. The figures released by the CEO’s office show the scale of the change across the state, but the supplied report does not include details of the process for submitting objections, appeals or requests for restoration of names.
Karnataka’s final electorate is now divided almost evenly between male and female voters, with female electors outnumbering male electors by 3,71,862. Third-gender electors account for 2,841 registrations in the final roll.
The Chief Electoral Officer’s office has published the final electoral roll after the SIR exercise. The next steps for individual voters, including checking entries and seeking corrections where required, depend on the procedures notified by the election authorities.
