Sikkim’s electorate shrank by 52,551 voters, a drop of 11.16 percent, after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) concluded on Monday, according to Chief Electoral Officer Raj Kumar Yadav. The final roll lists 418,467 voters, down from 471,018 before the exercise. Yadav thanked district collectors, election registration officers, political parties, booth-level officers and voters for their participation in the nearly three‑month review.
The draft roll, released on July 5, had 433,294 electors, 37,724 fewer than the pre‑SIR figure. An additional 14,827 names were removed between the draft and final rolls. Of the 471,018 pre‑SIR electors, 4,33,242 (91.99 percent) submitted enumeration forms; 37,737 did not. These non‑submissions included 10,837 deceased persons, 8,648 absent or untraceable electors, 14,603 who had permanently shifted, 2,396 duplicates, and 1,253 other cases.
The IT system flagged 52,384 logical discrepancies among mapped electors, and 72,135 electors were unmapped. Together, these categories prompted 124,519 notices. After hearings and document verification, 1,982 electors were added and 16,809 removed. The final electorate comprises 212,534 males, 205,931 females and two third‑gender voters.
Gangtok experienced the sharpest decline, losing 20,938 voters (17.13 percent) and 7,143 deletions. Other towns saw smaller changes, with Gyalshing’s decline at 8.34 percent. Despite the reduced roll, polling stations increased from 572 to 625, a 9 percent rise. Appeals against decisions are ongoing, with 111 online and 103 offline appeals received at the district level, 27 pending. Voters whose names may have been removed are urged to use the verification and appeal mechanisms. The final roll is publicly available at polling stations, ERO offices, the CEO Sikkim website and the ECINET app.
