The draft voter list will be released in Bengal on December 16.

The Election Commission has removed over 58 lakh names after the first phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.

The highest number of names were removed in areas like Chowringhee and Kolkata Port in Kolkata, while four times more names were removed from CM Mamata Banerjee's Bhabanipur seat compared to Suvendu Adhikari's Nandigram seat.

West Bengal records most number of deletions

Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, West Bengal has recorded large-scale deletions from its voter list during Phase 1 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). In Kolkata’s Bhabanipur seat, which had 1,61,509 voters in the January 2025 list, 44,787 names have been removed. In Nandigram of Purba Medinipur, a key political constitu

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