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A Booth Level Officer (BLO) checks paperwork throughout Special Intensive Revision at Jogbani, a municipal council space of Araria District in Bihar | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP
Following the Supreme Court’s directive, the EC launched the complete listing of near 65 lakh deleted voters with causes. In a earlier Datapoint in The Hindu, we discovered the SIR resulted in deletions of round 7 lakh extra feminine electors in comparison with the rolls ready as on January 1, 2025.
We repeated this train to establish constituencies with probably the most deletions by evaluating August SIR rolls with pending enrolments launched by the Bihar Chief Electoral Officer in mid-July 2025. The desk beneath reveals the highest 9 Assembly constituencies with probably the most deletions. It additionally mentions the variety of electors deleted and exclusion causes as a share, based on knowledge shared on August 17.
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We had conjectured that greater deletions amongst ladies have been as a consequence of greater illiteracy charges in Bihar and the lack to fill enumeration types. But we discovered no correlation between illiteracy and exclusion charges in Bihar’s districts.
We went on to extract the Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) IDs and the explanations for the deletions of all electors for these prime 9 ACs. Only the highest 9 ACs have been thought-about, because the EC has maintained the entire set of knowledge in picture PDFs, making it onerous to extract full info.
After parsing this knowledge, we discovered starker patterns in deletions amongst women and men throughout sure “purpose” and “age cohort” classes.
The desk beneath appears to be like at gender-wise and reason-wise patterns among the many exclusions within the prime 9 ACs. While there was barely any gender-difference amongst exclusions pertaining to “not discovered”, “enrolled elsewhere as effectively” and “deceased” voters, there was a stark distinction within the “completely shifted” class. About 62.6% of those that have been excluded because of this have been ladies in comparison with 37.4% who have been males.
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When age cohorts have been included within the evaluation, we discovered an much more distinct sample. The desk reveals the gender-wise, reason-wise, and age-wise patterns among the many exclusions within the prime 9 ACs
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Among the 18-29 and 30-49 age cohorts, ladies outnumbered males three to at least one and two to at least one, respectively, within the listing of exclusions beneath the “completely shifted” class, with no such noticeable variations amongst different classes. Which leads us to the query, is the upper deletion amongst ladies because of the exclusion of youthful, married ladies who’ve shifted to different States?
Data from the 2011 Census provides us pointers. The desk reveals gender-wise quantity of people that migrated out of Bihar based on 2011 census
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Nearly 17.7 lakh ladies had shifted out of Bihar as a consequence of marriage, compared to simply round 43,000 males who had carried out so. In distinction, 21.2 lakh males had shifted out of Bihar as a consequence of work. In comparability, simply round 1.5 lakh ladies had carried out so. This led to migrant males (38.5 lakh) outnumbering ladies (36.02 lakh) by round 2.5 lakh total from the State. This hole would have clearly elevated within the final 14 years, as we all know that male migration for work has solely elevated additional.
That leaves the query — why have extra migrant ladies been excluded from the SIR electoral rolls? Is this as a result of male electors who migrated over time have been already excluded within the abstract revisions within the earlier years? Also, what are the implications of excluding these migrants with out ensuring that they’re enrolled as voters in different States? Will this result in their disenfranchisement?
The knowledge for the tables have been sourced from the Election Commission, ceoelection.bihar.gov.in and the 2011 Census. Data for gender and causes have been scraped and transformed from picture PDF to spreadsheets utilizing OCR software program
Published – August 21, 2025 05:18 pm IST
