**Policy Summary: Bihar Electoral Roll Draft Publication - August 1, 2025**
The Election Commission of India (ECI) published the draft electoral roll for Bihar on August 1, 2025, following the initial enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2025. The draft roll encompasses data collected from over 7.24 crore electors in Bihar.
The draft list is accessible on the ECI portal at https:voters.eci.gov.indownloaderollstateCodeS04 and has been distributed to political parties by the 38 District Election Officers (DEOs) of Bihar, covering all 90,712 polling booths across 243 Assembly Constituencies.
A one-month period, from August 1st to September 1st, is designated for filing claims and objections. During this time, eligible electors or political parties can submit prescribed forms to the relevant Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) to add or remove names from the roll. Special attention is given to new voters who turned 18 years old on July 1st or will turn 18 by October 1st.
The ECI emphasizes that no name will be deleted from the draft electoral roll without providing the elector an opportunity to be heard and issuing a written order, which can be appealed to the District Magistrate (DM) and the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO). The Election Commission of Bihar, DEOs, EROs, 2,976 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), Booth Level Officers (BLOs), volunteers, and 1.60 Booth Level Agents (BLAs) nominated by 12 political parties participated in this process.
Key Entities Referenced
Election Commission: The Election Commission of India, responsible for overseeing elections.
Bihar: A state in India where the electoral roll revision is taking place.
Special Intensive Revision SIR 2025: Election Commission's initiative for revising the electoral roll in Bihar.
CEO of Bihar: Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar, responsible for election operations within the state.
DEOs of all 38 districts: District Election Officers of all 38 districts of Bihar.
EROs of all 243 Assembly Constituencies: Electoral Registration Officers of all 243 Assembly Constituencies of Bihar.
Form 6: Form to be filled for name addition into the Electoral roll.
1 October: Cutoff date for turning 18 years old to get names added to Electoral roll
Election Commission
DRAFT ELECTORAL ROLL ISSUED IN BIHAR
TODAY
ONE-MONTH PERIOD FOR CLAIMS &
OBJECTIONS BEGINS; DRAFT LIST SHARED
WITH POLITICAL PARTIES
TO ADD NAMES, COMPLETE ONE-MONTH
PERIOD STILL AVAILABLE
NO NAME WILL BE DELETED FROM DRAFT
ELECTORAL LIST WITHOUT GIVING REASON
Posted On: 01 AUG 2025 7:31PM by PIB Delhi
Following the successful completion of the first phase (Enumeration Phase) of Election Commission’s Special
Intensive Revision (SIR) 2025 in Bihar, the Draft Electoral Roll has been published today i.e 1 August, 2025.
The draft list is available at ECI portal: https://voters.eci.gov.in/download-eroll?stateCode=S04. Also, booth-
wise draft lists of all the 90,712 polling booths of all 243 Assembly Constituencies has been shared with all
the political parties by 38 DEOs of Bihar, today on 1 August.
Key Highlights:
1. Stellar example of Unparallelled, Transparent and Impartial team work of Election
Commission: In their endeavour to reach each village, each ward, each house and add the name
of each eligible elector to the draft Electoral Roll, the CEO of Bihar; DEOs of all 38 districts;
EROs of all 243 Assembly Constituencies; 2,976 AEROs; BLOs of 90,712 polling booths, lakhs
of volunteers and the 1.60 BLAs nominated by all the 12 political parties have carried out the task
with full responsibility.
2. Unprecedented Participation by Electors: More than 7.24 crore electors of Bihar filled up the
Enumeration Forms; all included in the draft Electoral Roll.
3. Now is the time for Claims & Objections – From 1 August to 1 September: During this
period, to add the name of any eligible elector or to delete the name of any ineligible elector, any
elector or any political party, can file claims and objections in a prescribed form before the
concerned ERO.
4. Still one-month time available for getting names added:All eligible electors are appealed to check their names in the draft list, and if their name does not
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exist in the list, they should fill and submit Form 6 along with the Declaration Form.
Young voters, who have turned 18 years on 1 July or are going to turn 18 by 1 October, should also
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get their name added to the Electoral roll by filling Form 6 along with the Declaration Form.
5. As per SIR orders, NO NAME CAN BE DELETED from the draft Electoral Roll, by the concerned
ERO/AERO without giving a hearing to the elector and subsequently passing a written order, which are
appealable to the DM and the CEO.
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