Dec 10, 2025 – West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer reports that uncollectable enumeration forms exceed 57.5 lakh, including over 24 lakh dead voters, and orders Special Roll Observers to scrutinise entries before the draft roll’s Dec 16 release [22].

Dec 11, 2025 – The Election Commission extends draft‑roll publication dates: Tamil Nadu and Gujarat to Dec 19, Andaman & Nicobar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to Dec 23, and Uttar Pradesh to Dec 31; enumeration deadlines shift to mid‑December, while Kerala’s schedule already moves the draft roll to Dec 23 [21].

Dec 16, 2025 – West Bengal publishes its draft electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision, deleting 58.2 lakh names (dead, shifted, duplicate, ghost voters) and posts the list on the CEO site, the EC portal and ECINET; hearings are slated to begin within a week [20].

Dec 16, 2025 – The Election Commission releases draft rolls for West Bengal, Rajasthan, Goa, Puducherry and Lakshadweep, opening a claims‑and‑objections window (Dec 16 – Jan 15) and setting final‑roll publication for Feb 14, 2026 [19].

Dec 19, 2025 – Gujarat’s SIR finishes on Dec 14, removing 73.73 lakh voters (deceased, absent, migrated, duplicate) from a pre‑SIR total of 5.08 crore, and invites objections until Jan 18 [18].

Dec 19, 2025 – An editorial notes massive deletions in Tamil Nadu (> 97 lakh) and West Bengal (> 58 lakh), warns of “mass voter‑roll exclusions” and cites a Supreme Court directive to extend the enumeration phase to avoid disenfranchisement [17].

Dec 23, 2025 – Kerala’s SIR draft roll appears, showing 24.08 lakh exclusions from a base of 2.78 crore voters; the CEO announces an objections window until Jan 22, 2026 and a final roll to be published on Feb 21 [16].

Dec 23, 2025 – Across Andaman & Nicobar, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, the SIR deletes a total of 95 lakh names (64 k, 24.08 lakh, 27.34 lakh, 42.74 lakh respectively) and schedules final rolls for Feb 14, 2026 [15].

Dec 27, 2025 – West Bengal’s officers’ association files a representation objecting to draft‑roll deletions, invoking Section 22 of the Representation of the People Act and demanding that Electoral Registration Officers retain statutory hearing powers [14].

Dec 27, 2025 – Assam’s special revision draft roll deletes 10.56 lakh names (4.79 lakh dead, 5.23 lakh migrated, 53,619 duplicates); the final roll is set for Feb 10, 2026 with claims open until Jan 22 [12].

Dec 28, 2025 – Uttar Pradesh’s SIR draft roll removes 2.89 crore names (≈ 18.7 % of the pre‑SIR list), publishes a 12.55 crore‑voter draft, and opens a month‑long objections window starting Jan 1, 2026 for unmapped voters to submit required documents [11].

Dec 30, 2025 – The Election Commission further extends Uttar Pradesh’s SIR schedule, moving the draft roll to Jan 6, 2026 and the final roll to Mar 6, 2026; it outlines a Jan 6 – Feb 27 claims‑and‑objections process and notes BLO stress and reported suicides [10].

Dec 31, 2025 – A Hindu editorial condemns the SIR as a “farce,” highlighting ad‑hoc changes, rushed hearings and software glitches, and reiterates that over 6.5 crore names have been deleted nationwide, including 2.89 crore in Uttar Pradesh [9].

Jan 2, 2026 – Election officials confirm that urban enumeration form collection during the SIR is far lower than rural across nine states and three UTs; Phase II, launched on Nov 4, 2025, proceeds in 12 regions (including Tamil Nadu) while Assam runs a separate special revision [8].

Jan 3, 2026 – West Bengal’s SIR reduces logical discrepancies to 94.49 lakh (down from 1.67 crore in the Dec 16 draft), cutting parent‑name mismatches, multi‑progeny links and age‑gap anomalies, while opposition leaders demand public disclosure of the discrepancy list [7].

Jan 4, 2026 – Kerala’s SIR draft excludes 24.08 lakh voters, flags ASD misclassifications, and notes a divergence from the State Election Commission’s 2.86 crore local‑body list; the CEO pledges inclusion of all eligible voters in the final roll due Feb 21 [6].

Jan 6, 2026 – The Election Commission publishes Uttar Pradesh’s draft roll with 2.89 crore deletions, cites deaths (2.99 %), permanent migration (14.06 %) and duplicates (1.65 %); it caps voters per booth at 1,200, creates 15,030 new polling stations and opens a month‑long objections period [5].

Jan 7, 2026 – Nationwide SIR removes roughly 6.5 crore names from draft rolls in nine states and three UTs, shrinking the combined electorate from 50.9 crore to 44.4 crore; Uttar Pradesh’s draft alone excludes 2.89 crore voters, illustrating the scale of the cleanup [4].

Jan 9, 2026 – West Bengal’s first SIR phase (Nov early – Dec mid) deletes about 58 lakh voters, with extreme cuts at Sambhu Vidyalaya booth (732 deletions) and disproportionate removals in Matua‑dominant constituencies; the state chief minister writes to the EC demanding fixes, while the commission exempts overseas and temporarily away voters from in‑person hearings [3].

Feb 19, 2026 – The Election Commission urges 22 states and UTs to complete preparatory work for the next Special Intensive Revision slated for April 2026, mandating 2002‑04 roll mapping and Booth‑Level Officer training; it notes Bihar’s successful 2025 SIR ahead of its assembly poll and coordinates with the 2027 Census launch on Apr 1 [2].

Feb 20, 2026 – Kerala’s Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U. Kelkar announces the final electoral roll of 2,69,53,644 voters (1,38,27,319 women, 1,31,26,048 men, 277 transgender) to be published on Feb 21, 2026; CPI(M) representative M.V. Jayarajan claims “eligible voters had been excluded from the ECI list” [1].