Uttarakhand final electoral roll shrinks 10% to 7.16 million voters

The Election Commission of India published Uttarakhand's final electoral roll on Saturday, showing 7.16 million electors, a net contraction of 10.1% from the pre-SIR list. The final roll added 129,872 names and deleted 104,708 during the claims phase, resulting in 25,164 more electors than the July 14 draft. Most deletions occurred in the draft stage, with 827,000 electors removed as absent, shifted, dead, or duplicate. Udham Singh Nagar saw the highest deletion rate at 14.0%, followed by Dehradun at 13.2%. The final roll includes 72,656 voters aged 18-19 and 122,892 aged 80 and above, across 12,543 polling stations.