The Election Commission published Karnataka’s final electoral roll-on October 27, 2026, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The state had 5,54,32,314 voters before the revision. The draft roll, published on August 24, listed 4,46,35,975 voters after 1,07,96,339 names were removed. The final roll now has 4,55,00,011 voters, a net reduction of 99,32,303 (nearly one crore) from the pre-SIR figure.
The Final Electoral Roll for SIR-2026 has been published. Electors can download the part-wise electoral roll from the link below:
https://t.co/NN6wc5PKTNThe SIR Booklet is also available at the following link:
https://t.co/SsXh2HjSiZ
#SIR2026
@ECISVEEP https://t.co/7n0qaGtK8g— Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka (@ceo_karnataka) October 27, 2026
Final roll adds 8.19 lakh voters to the draft list
The final roll records a net increase of around 8.19 lakh voters compared with the draft list. However, the overall figures do not show how many people whose names were removed at the draft stage were subsequently included in the final roll. They also do not provide a separate count of young and first-time voters added during the revision.
The constituency-wise final electoral rolls are available on the website of the Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).
Link: https://voters.eci.gov.in/download-eroll?stateCode=S10
Over 43 lakh names removed in Bengaluru
Bengaluru’s electorate fell from around 1.03 crore voters before the SIR to 59.08 lakh in the final roll, a reduction of more than 43 lakh names. The city had also recorded the highest number of deletions at the draft stage.
Across Karnataka, election officials issued 43,82,824 notices to voters categorised as having “no mapping” with the earlier electoral roll or having “logical discrepancies” in their details. The first category covered voters whose details could not be matched with the earlier roll, while the second covered entries flagged for discrepancies. Hearings on these notices were completed before the final roll was published, according to report on the CEO’s figures.
The reduction in Bengaluru accounts for a substantial share of the overall fall in the state’s electorate. However, the final figures do not establish how many voters removed from the draft list were subsequently included in the final roll.
Over 10 lakh applications received for voter inclusion
Form 6 is used to apply for inclusion in the electoral roll. Between June 16 and October 26, Karnataka received 10,62,336 Form 6 applications, according to figures reported by The Hindu. Of these, 83,806 had been rejected for reasons including applicants already being registered elsewhere, failure to submit documents and other grounds.
The CEO’s office said instructions had been issued to District Electoral Officers (DEOs) to contact applicants whose forms were rejected and include their names if they could be reached and found eligible.
During the claims and objections period, which ended on September 23, more than 7.87 lakh Form 6 applications had been received. Of these, 7.08 lakh were accepted, 76,231 rejected and 3,193 remained pending at the stage covered by the earlier report. The later figures reflect further processing of applications.
The final roll includes more than 6.83 lakh voters aged 18–19 and over 3.92 lakh voters aged above 85. It lists 2,25,83,107 male voters, 2,29,14,063 female voters and 2,841 third-gender voters.
Form 7 applications and allegations over voter deletions
The publication of the final roll follows questions over Form 7 applications, which are used to object to the inclusion of a name or seek its deletion from the electoral roll.
Notably, 61,509 Form 7 applications seeking deletions were filed in the names of election officials, without any reason being mentioned for the proposed deletions. The report said more than 53,000 such applications were filed in the final week of the notice-disposal period. By October 22, a total of 2,28,917 Form 7 applications had reportedly been received during the SIR process.
Officials said that the forms had been generated by software for people marked as ineligible among those issued notices over logical discrepancies or the inability to map their details to the 2002 electoral rolls. The reported absence of reasons in the applications has raised questions about how the deletion requests were generated and processed.
Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar had alleged that pre-filled Form 7 applications were being supplied by unidentified agencies and that BJP workers had submitted large numbers of applications seeking voter deletions. He cited 14,000 applications in Vijayapura City, 3,244 in Bhalki, 10,000 in Narasimharaja and 6,250 in Mudigere.
Shivakumar said the Election Commission of India (ECI) should identify those responsible and initiate criminal proceedings. He also said the state government was examining legal options, had asked the Chief Secretary to obtain the relevant data and that FIRs had been registered. He alleged that many of the affected voters belonged to minority, Dalit and backward-class communities. These are allegations made by the Chief Minister.
Karnataka CM Shri @DKShivakumar Ji is showing a bundle of Form 7 applications carrying pre-filled voter details in printed form, used to target and delete the names of Muslims and minorities from the electoral rolls in bulk.
@BJP4India @BJP4Karnataka, why are pre-filled Form 7 applications being used to delete the votes of Muslims and minorities?
We will never allow the Gyanesh-BJP nexus to undermine the electoral rights of the people of Karnataka.
@ECISVEEP
@INCIndia @INCKarnataka
#Form7 #SIR #VoteChori #GyaneshOut
— Dr Syed Naseer Hussain, M P (@NasirHussainINC) October 8, 2026
Kharge alleges ‘Vote Chori’ and questions protection for CEC
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the Election Commission of irregularities in the electoral rolls, alleging that disclosures about the SIR process were exposing what he called “Vote Chori”.
In a post on X, he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah of trying to suppress the public movement against the alleged irregularities and questioned why they were protecting Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Kharge said the INDIA bloc would continue its democratic struggle to protect every citizen’s vote and the Constitution.
As more skeletons tumble out of the Election Commission’s cupboard, exposing Vote Chori, Modi-Shah are trying hard to suppress the people’s movement! Why are they protecting CEC Gyanesh Kumar?
This diversionary tactics and bogus propaganda is only discrediting Modi Govt, and tarnishing our Democracy!
INDIA shall continue our democratic struggle to protect every citizen’s vote and our Constitution!
#ChaloDilli
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) October 27, 2026
Karnataka CEO denies bulk Form 7 filings, says applications were generated for ‘ineligible’ electors
Responding to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s criticism of the Election Commission over the SIR process, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Karnataka clarified on X that election officials had not filed bulk Form 7 applications. The clarification was issued during a press conference on October 27, in connection with the publication of the final electoral roll.
https://t.co/Oohyj77Lew
— Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka (@ceo_karnataka) October 27, 2026
The CEO said Form 7 applications had been generated for electors marked as “ineligible” during SIR hearings. In such cases, the reason for deletion was recorded as “Others”, while the applicant details appeared as ERO/AERO, depending on the login used to generate the form. The CEO further maintained that no bulk Form 7 applications had been received without a reason for deletion being specified in the application.
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