You can choose to visit the polling station and check the draft list with the booth-level officer (BLO). All BLOs are required to keep a copy of the electoral lists for each booth. (File Photo)
UP SIR 2026 Voter List: The Election Commission of India (ECI) will publish the draft electoral rolls for Uttar Pradesh on December 31. The UP Chief Electoral Officer had requested a two-week extension to complete the process, so that District Election Officers could re-verify the list of voters marked deceased, shifted and absent. The state had already received a week’s extension before this. So far, SIR has been completed in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said that the draft electoral roll published on December 31 is likely to have 12.55 crore voters. This would mean the deletion of about 2.89 crore names compared to the pre-SIR tally. The people whose names are excluded will get a chance to challenge the removal starting January 1.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had told party leaders and workers in a recent event in Lucknow, “Chaar crore ka gap missing hai… Yeh aapka virodhi nahi hai, ismein se 90 per cent aapka matdata hai (There is a gap of four crore missing voters. They are not your opponents, but 90 per cent of them are your voters).”
Asking party workers to reach out to every voter in their booths to get enumerated, the chief minister had said that the population of Uttar Pradesh is about 25 crore, out of which about 65 per cent should be voters, including those who are turning 18 years.
“As per this calculation, the number of voters should be around 16 crore. But in the SIR counting so far, it has come to around 12 crore only,” he had said.
Another option is looking up the list through the ECINET mobile app.
If your name is not on the list, you need to sumbit an objection to the EC.
“Starting January 1, the EC will roll out a month long process during which any of the nearly 2.89 crore voters, 2,88,75,000 to be precise, whose name have been deleted for various reasons and want to contest the action can reapply by flling out Form 6,” UP CEO Rinwa said, according to a PTI report.
He also added: “Untraceable or missing voters who also figure among the deleted, would need to show proof of inclusion in the 2003 SIR list or any of the ECI prescribed documents for getting names added to the voters’ list.
Rinwa said that the ECI will also invite those who object to the inclusion of the nearly 12.55 crore names in the draft electoral roll between January 1 and 31. These objections can be filed by filling out Form 7.
If the objection is to be found valid against the name in the draft list, it may be removed from the list.
You can submit these forms either online at voters.eci.gov.in or the ECINET app. The offline includes paying a visit to the booth level officer (BLO).
You should keep the following documents handy, according to the poll body’s directions:
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