Urban constituencies dominate voter exclusions as Maharashtra SIR cuts over 2.06 crore names

Urban and rapidly expanding assembly constituencies recorded some of the highest numbers of excluded voters in Maharashtras draft electoral roll released after the Special Intensive Revision SIR with Nalasopara in Palghar district topping the listThe Chief Electoral Office said more than 206 crore names from the previous electoral roll were not included in the draft list following the revision exerciseAccording to the data the draft electoral roll now has 77165562 electors compared with 97854049 voters before the SIRThe names not included in the draft roll were classified under several categories including voters already enrolled elsewhere deceased persons permanently shifted voters untraceable or absent voters and othersNalasopara records highest number of exclusionsNalasopara located on the outskirts of Mumbai in Palghar district recorded the highest number of excluded names at 306851The constituency had 4361 voters categorised as already enrolled elsewhere while 11773 names were listed under the deceased categoryAnother 28501 voters were classified as permanently shifted while 256837 were marked as untraceable or absent A further 5379 names were placed under the others categoryThe figures indicate that the large number of exclusions in Nalasopara was driven primarily by voters classified as untraceable or absent during the revision exerciseHadapsar and Panvel follow in voter exclusionsPunes Hadapsar assembly constituency recorded the secondhighest number of exclusions with 298372 names not included in the draft electoral rollThe exclusions comprised 6910 voters already enrolled elsewhere 14718 deceased voters 13224 permanently shifted voters 257083 categorised as untraceable or absent and 6437 listed under other reasonsPanvel in Raigad district ranked third with 283356 names excluded from the draft rollOf these 8017 voters were classified as already enrolled elsewhere 13862 as deceased and 140969 as permanently shifted Another 119714 were listed as untraceable or absent while 794 fell under other categoriesOther Pune constituencies also record high exclusionsPunes Khadakwasala assembly constituency recorded 277851 excluded namesThe constituency had 6855 voters already enrolled elsewhere 14179 listed as deceased and 22353 classified as permanently shiftedA further 232600 voters were categorised as untraceable or absent while 1864 names fell under other categoriesChinchwad another assembly constituency in Pune district followed with 269733 exclusionsThe data showed that 14164 voters were already enrolled elsewhere 17107 were deceased and 18104 had permanently shifted As many as 220175 voters were listed as untraceable or absent while 183 names were placed under other categoriesRural and smaller constituencies record fewer exclusionsAt the other end of the spectrum Ahmednagars Akole ST assembly constituency recorded the lowest number of exclusions at 16430Ratnagiris Rajapur followed with 17102 excluded names while Chimur in Chandrapur district recorded 17866Buldhanas JalgaonJamod and Khamgaon constituencies recorded 18160 and 18446 exclusions respectivelyThe variation across constituencies shows that exclusions were considerably higher in several urban and densely populated areas than in smaller or less urbanised constituenciesPermanently shifted and untraceable voters form largest categoriesAcross Maharashtra a total of 20688487 names were not included in the draft electoral roll following the SIR exerciseThe permanently shifted category accounted for the largest number of exclusions at 7676135This was followed by voters categorised as untraceable or absent at 7541229The deceased category accounted for 3482231 names while 1766502 voters were classified as already enrolled elsewhereAnother 222390 names were placed under the others categorywith inputs from PTI