Rajasthan's new draft voter roll has 11 lakh more names than the SIR roll, but 19 lakh fewer than the local poll list

Rajasthan’s draft electoral roll for 2027, published on November 12, lists 5,26,67,416 voters, about 11 lakh more than the 5.15 crore on the final roll of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) released in February. It is also about 19 lakh fewer than the 5.45 crore names on the lists the State Election Commission used for the local body polls. The state has therefore had three official voter counts in nine months, and a roll that was meant to settle the question has opened it again.

Chief Electoral Officer Naveen Mahajan gave the break-up: 2,75,24,780 men, 2,51,42,052 women and 584 transgender voters. The roll is the first published under the annual Special Summary Revision (SSR) since the SIR cleared the state’s list.

What the draft roll says

The draft carries January 1, 2027, as the qualifying date. Anyone who turns 18 by October 1, 2027, can apply in advance. The roll is available on election.rajasthan.gov.in, and booth-wise hard copies are with booth level officers. Recognised parties in every assembly constituency have received one free soft copy without photographs and one hard copy at the electoral registration officer’s office.

Voters can file claims and objections until December 11, using Form 6 to add a name, Form 7 to object to or delete one, and Form 8 to correct details. They can apply online through the ECINet app or the Voters’ Portal, or through booth level officers. Applications are to be disposed of by December 28, and the final roll is due on January 4, 2027.

Mahajan said cleaning and updating the rolls is essential to “ensuring the credibility and transparency of the electoral process”, and urged eligible citizens to check their names and apply if they are missing. Weekly lists of applications will be displayed outside registration offices and posted online, and officers will meet party representatives every week.

A decision on a claim can be appealed to the District Magistrate within 15 days, and a second appeal lies with the Chief Electoral Officer within 15 days of the District Magistrate’s order, under Section 24 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.

Why the numbers do not match

The three lists were built differently. The SIR was an intensive exercise in which booth level officers went door to door and voters had to return pre-filled forms to stay on the list. The SSR starts from the last published final roll, keeps existing names in general and does not ask voters to prove eligibility again. It adds new names, removes ineligible ones and corrects entries.

That explains why a roll built on the SIR list can grow. The February SIR roll had cut Rajasthan’s electorate from 5.47 crore to 5.15 crore, with 44.28 lakh names deleted and 12.91 lakh added. A draft that now stands at 5.26 crore means new registrations and fresh additions since February, though the Chief Electoral Officer’s release does not give a split of how many names were added or removed in this draft.

Rajasthan's three voter counts

1. February 2026Final SIR roll: 5.15 crore voters, after 44.28 lakh deletions
2. Early October 2026State Election Commission lists for local body polls: 5.45 crore
3. November 12, 2026SSR 2027 draft roll: 5.26 crore
4. December 11, 2026Last day for claims and objections
5. January 4, 2027Final roll due

The argument over deleted names

On November 8, the rights activist Nikhil Dey said 26.63 lakh voters deleted in the SIR still appeared on the State Election Commission’s urban and panchayat lists, and asked how an officer could mark a voter as deceased or shifted in one roll and keep the same person in another. Our report on that claim records the commission’s answer: Secretary Rajesh Verma said the commission used the pre-SIR roll, last updated on January 1, 2025, because its preparations for the local polls began early and it has traditionally relied on the SSR-revised rolls.

The new draft does not settle that point. It is 19 lakh below the commission’s list, but no published comparison yet matches the three lists name by name, so how many of the names the SIR removed are back on the draft is not known.

The panchayat polls in Rajasthan are already under way on the older list, so voters whose names appear on one roll and not the other may have been treated differently within a single season.

The wider picture

Rajasthan is one of 16 states and Union Territories whose SSR 2027 drafts were released on Thursday, with claims open until December 11 in all of them and final rolls due on January 4. Uttar Pradesh’s draft is due on November 17, with claims there open until December 16. Early drafts have shown small rises over the SIR rolls in several states, in the range of 0.1% to 3%, as new voters and corrections are added.

The Election Commission has said voters can now check their names and submit complaints or requests for changes. In Rajasthan, a voter missing from the draft who was on the SIR roll should file Form 6 with a booth level officer or online, while someone who finds a dead or shifted person on the list can use Form 7.

What happens next

The next date that matters is December 11, when claims and objections close. Parties will receive weekly application lists and meet registration officers every week until then. No response from the Election Commission or the State Election Commission to the three-count discrepancy had been published when this report was filed.