Officials have said the final voter lists – after a Special Intensive Revision – are being published by each district. In many places, people can already see paper copies at certain offices and polling places, so they can check things themselves before the lists are put online for everyone.
At the moment, the complete final lists aren’t on the Commission’s websites or the mobile app. However, once they are up, voters will be able to check if they’re on the list at eci.gov.in, ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in, or with the ECI Net app, using either their name or their EPIC number.
This is the first time the voter lists for all of West Bengal have been completely checked since 2002. The work involved months of people in the field checking, holding hearings, and making sure data was correct, to make the lists as accurate as possible before the 2026 elections.
Bankura district is showing the biggest change in these first lists, with sources saying more than 1.35 lakh names are likely to be taken off. Local offices have put up paper copies, and people have been coming in regularly to check their names and make corrections if needed.
Officials explain that the names being removed are those of people who aren’t allowed to vote or who are on the list more than once, to avoid anyone being wrongly kept from voting on election day. People have died, moved away permanently, are listed in more than one place, or couldn’t be found when field workers went looking for them – these are some of the reasons.
State election people said that 63,66,952 voters have been removed from the final list after the second part of the SIR. At the same time, 1,82,036 voters were added using Forms 6 and 6A, and 6,671 were added with Form 8.
Officials also said that over 5.46 lakh deletions came from Form 7 submissions, and more than 58 lakh forms that field workers use weren’t turned in during the review. These forms that weren’t turned in mostly showed people who had died, moved, or were listed more than once, and were noted during the review.
After this review, there are 7,04,59,284 voters in West Bengal. Almost 1.67 crore voters across the state were part of hearings. Around 1.36 crore were flagged for problems with what was known about them, and roughly 31 lakh didn’t have the right polling-station information during the process.
What’s important is that over 60 lakh voters are still being looked at, but are still on the post-SIR lists for now. Additional lists will be published bit by bit as the cases that are still open are decided, and people who are really voters will still be able to get their records fixed or corrected.
Voters can check their entries in a number of ways when online access is working:
– Go to eci.gov.in or ceowestbengal.wb.gov.in and search using their name or EPIC number.
– Use the ECI Net mobile app to find entries and polling details.
– Look at the paper copies at district and sub-division offices, and at certain polling stations.
The CEO’s office will share computer copies of the updated list with political parties that are officially recognized. District people will also give paper copies to Booth Level Agents for checking in neighborhoods and for getting feedback.
If a name isn’t there, or the information is wrong, voters should quickly fill out:
– Form 6 or 6A to be added to the list.
– Form 8 to correct details.
– Form 7 to ask for a name to be taken off, if it should be.
This review has caused a lot of political attention, because of the large changes to the voter list and what’s at stake in 2026. In Bhabanipur, a well-known part of Kolkata, 47,094 names have been removed, and 14,154 voters are still being looked at, which is making local election planning more difficult.
While parties that aren’t in power have questioned how many names have been removed, the Commission says the process followed normal rules, with checking at several levels and hearings. Officials say the goal is a cleaner, more open list of voters that will make fewer arguments at the polling places.
With some cases still open, more lists will be published in stages. Voters are told to check their entries early, send in papers if they’re flagged, and watch for updates online, to avoid any bad surprises before the 2026 Assembly elections.
Publishing the final voter lists after the SIR is an important step toward free and fair elections in West Bengal. As the large deletions in Bankura and the changes in Bhabanipur show, the updated lists will change how campaigns happen on the ground, where resources are put, and what plans are made across the state in the months ahead.
