9.22L Nagpur City Voters In SIR Deletion Pool, All Eyes On Aug 24 | Nagpur News

Nagpur: After Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration exercise concluded on Monday, 9.22 lakh of Nagpur’s 24.47 lakh electors — 37.68% — face probable deletion from the voter list, setting the stage for a substantial churn in the city’s electoral rolls in recent years.More strikingly, each of the six Assembly constituencies has over 1.3 lakh such electors, though how many names will eventually be deleted will become clear after the prescribed scrutiny and claims-and-objections process.The figures are based on the latest official SIR status report as of 9pm Monday. District-wide, Nagpur digitised 31,93,766 enumeration forms, taking overall digitisation to 68.85%, while 14,43,291 electors — 31.11% — were categorised as uncollectable.The largest pool is now in Nagpur North, where 1.64 lakh electors are uncollectable, followed by Nagpur West with 1.60 lakh and Nagpur East with 1.58 lakh, Nagpur South West accounts for 1.54 lakh, South 1.53 lakh, while Central — the lowest in absolute numbers — has 1.31 lakh.By night, 10 of Nagpur district’s 12 Assembly constituencies had effectively completed their SIR processing, while Nagpur West and North had 300–350 cases each pending digitisation.The rural-urban divide remained stark. Nagpur city’s six constituencies collectively reached 62.25% digitisation, with 9.22 lakh electors, or 37.68%, in the uncollectable pool. Nagpur North led city digitisation at 63.41%, followed closely by East at 63.37%, while West remained lowest at 59.74%. The six rural constituencies performed substantially better at 76.22% digitisation, with 23.78% uncollectable. District-wide, the probable deletion pool stood at 14.43 lakh of Nagpur’s 46.38 lakh electors.The sheer scale makes the exercise electorally significant even without drawing immediate political contours. The pools under scrutiny in individual constituencies are many times larger than victory margins recorded in several Nagpur seats in the 2024 Assembly election. However, any comparison now will be premature since the uncollectable figure is not the exact number of electors who will ultimately disappear from rolls — this will be clear only after the final voter list is released on Oct 27.Officials said the category broadly comprises electors whose enumeration forms could not be collected, including those found absent, permanently shifted, deceased, duplicate or otherwise untraceable. Residential mobility could be a factor, particularly in older and densely populated parts of the city. “These cannot be treated as deletions at this stage. Every eligible elector will have the opportunity available under the prescribed process to establish his or her eligibility before the final roll is prepared,” a senior election official said.The next crucial date is Aug 24, when the draft electoral roll will be published. Only thereafter will the picture begin to sharpen as claims are filed, classifications challenged and eligible voters restored where required.