electorate

Guwahati/Jorhat/Rangia/Kokrajhar, April 9 Despite overcast skies and intermittent rain, people across Assam turned out in large numbers on Thursday to vote in the assembly elections, with enthusiasm visible from first-time voters to octogenarians.Heavy showers lashed parts of the state, while...

New Delhi, April 9 Voting began across Kerala on Thursday, with political leaders expressing confidence and urging citizens to exercise their franchise in what is widely seen as a decisive election for the state's future.Kerala Minister P. Rajeev arrived at the Ambedkar Training Centre in...

Chennai, March 26 – Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections on April 23, Thursday marks the final opportunity for eligible citizens in Tamil Nadu to have their names included in the electoral roll.The Election Commission has urged all unregistered voters to take advantage of this last chance...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 24 – The Election Commission of India has received a total of 2,125 nomination papers from 1,254 candidates for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections, Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Kelkar said on Tuesday.Kerala will go to the polls on April 9 to elect 140 new...

Kolkata, March 23 The supplementary list of voters under the "under adjudication" category of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal, scheduled to be published on Monday evening, was not released until 10.15 pm.West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 23 – The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Kerala stated on Monday that it has come to their notice that a letter from the Election Commission, bearing the seal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is being circulated across various Malayalam news channels...

Kolkata, March 12 Following the publication of post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal on February 28, Election Commission officials discussed the modalities for publishing supplementary voter lists with Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Thursday."The discussion today focused on...

In Kolkata, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar asserted that no eligible voter’s name would be removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal during the upcoming assembly elections. He emphasized that the Election Commission's priority is to ensure free, fair, and peaceful polls in the...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions from the electoral roll in the state...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls on Saturday, for the second consecutive day, after she spent the night at the protest site here.Banerjee had begun the demonstration at Metro...

Kolkata, March 6 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a protest sit-in here on Friday to protest alleged arbitrary deletions from the post-SIR electoral rolls, escalating the TMC's confrontation with the Election Commission ahead of the state assembly polls.Launching the protest at...

Kolkata, March 6 Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will begin a sit-in here on Friday to protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls in the state.The protest comes just two days before the planned visit of the full bench...

Kolkata, March 2 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday criticised the Election Commission over the deletion of names from the final electoral rolls of the state following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, and asserted that she would win from the Bhabanipur Assembly...

Kolkata, March 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission over deletions in the post-SIR rolls, alleging a "nexus" between the poll panel and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters, and help the saffron party in the upcoming...

Kolkata, March 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission over deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls, alleging a "nexus" between the poll panel and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters and help the saffron party in the...

Kolkata, February 28 Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen's name appears on the post-SIR electoral rolls for West Bengal, and his status has been listed as 'Non-Resident Indian', a senior Election Commission official said on Saturday.This development follows a controversy after the election...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission (EC) began publishing the post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal in phases on Saturday, with figures from the Bankura district indicating that around 1.18 lakh names have been deleted since the exercise commenced.Hard copies of the updated rolls...

Kolkata, February 27 The Election Commission (EC) began publishing the post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal in phases on Saturday, as officials put up hard copies of the list in some districts such as Bankura.As of the last reports received, the list was yet to be made available online on...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission is set to release West Bengal's electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process on Saturday, marking a crucial stage in the voter list overhaul ahead of the 2026 assembly elections.According to officials, all 7.08 crore names that...

The National Round Table Conference of the Election Commission of India and State Election Commissioners concluded in New Delhi with the unanimous adoption of the National Declaration 2026. The declaration stated that the preparation of accurate electoral rolls is the foundation of democracy...