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Gujarat Final Voter Roll Falls to 4.40 Crore After 77 Lakh Deletions

Officials attribute the purge to migration, deaths, untraceable entries, duplicates.

Overview

  • The Election Commission published Gujarat’s final electoral rolls on February 17 listing 4,40,30,725 voters.
  • The total increased by 5.60 lakh from the December 19 draft after claims and objections were verified and disposed of by February 10.
  • Compared with the earlier tally of 5.08 crore, the electorate contracted by roughly 13% following the Special Intensive Revision.
  • State data cite about 40 lakh permanent shifts, 18 lakh deaths, 9.8 lakh untraceable registrations and 3.8 lakh duplicates, with overall deletions near 77 lakh and roughly 9.5 lakh new electors added.
  • The drive deployed 34 district election officers and over 50,000 booth-level officers, and Ahmedabad now leads the state with 49.1 lakh voters and the highest additions.