The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday revealed that over 52.3 lakh electors in the state of poll-bound Bihar could not be traced at their registered addresses during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
According to the data shared by ECI, these 52.3 lakh cases — amounting to 6.62% of Bihar’s total 7.89 crore electors — fall under various categories, including deceased voters, permanently shifted individuals, duplicate enrollments, and those completely untraceable.
The ECI data provides the following detailed classification:
Deceased electors: 18,66,869 (2.36%)
Permanently shifted electors: 26,01,031 (3.29%)
Electors enrolled at multiple places: 7,50,742 (0.95%)
Electors not traceable: 11,484 (0.01%)
