ECI ordered a house-to-house rebuild of Bihar's roll on 24 June 2025 and extended it to other States; the Supreme Court upheld it on 27 May 2026 while limiting the ECI's citizenship inquiry; West Bengal appeals continue.
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Scorer A. Court upheld the exercise and limited its citizenship inquiry, but large deletions, disputed classification and pending West Bengal appeals leave outcome evidence mixed.
Scorer B. Rolls were rebuilt for hundreds of millions of electors, but large deletions, disputed West Bengal appeals and a Court that upheld it while limiting citizenship inquiry leave outcomes mixed.
The SIR is an exercise ordered by the Election Commission, an independent constitutional body, so it carries no party credit here (government in office: NDA, centre-2024-modi-3). Stated purposes, figures by stage and the contested claims are set out in the dossier “Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls”.
The Supreme Court upheld the exercise on 27 May 2026 while holding that the ECI’s citizenship inquiry is limited to roll eligibility and that doubtful-citizenship cases go to the competent authority under the Citizenship Act. The text of the 27 May 2026 judgment and the 8 September 2025 order was opened [17][18]; the ECI orders were not (official sites returned errors), so figures and ECI statements come from secondary reports and should be checked against the primary documents. Whether deletions affected any election result is not established.
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The Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, begun in Bihar in June 2025 and extended state by state, with figures, court rulings, party positions and disputed claims as of 12 October 2026.
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Evidence points +0.5 (range −1.0 to +2.0)
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Evidence points −8.5 (range −10.0 to −7.0)
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Evidence points −3.0 (range −5.0 to −1.0)
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Evidence points −2.0 (range −3.0 to −1.0)