Election Commission reviews poll preparedness in Manipur ahewad of upcoming assembly elections

Guwahati: Senior officers from the Election Commission of India began their review visit at Imphal to review the poll preparedness of the Manipur.

In a statement the Chief Electrol Officer (CEO) stated that during the review meeting, all 16 districts of Manipur represented by the District Election Officers and Superintendent of Police made their presentation to the delegation of the ECI.

The presentations were followed by a workshop of demonstrating the First Level Checking of EVM & VVPAT to the DEOs, Deputy DEOs/FLC Supervisors and Election Officers.


The administrative and technical safeguards with regards to EVM & VVPAT were demonstrated by engineers from Electronic Corporation of India.FLCs refers to the process of verifying and certifying the readiness of EVM & VVPAT. It is to be done before every General/Bye Elections to PC/AC or in any election where EVMs are used.

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FLCs are conducted in the presence of representatives from recognised National and State political Parties.

The violence riddled state is likely to go assembly polls early next year.Women voters outnumber male in Manipur’s final electoral rolls, published on Sunday after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across the state in September this year

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Arun Kumar Sinha in Imphal had said that with July 1, 2026, as the qualifying date, Manipur has a total of 19,60,620 registered voters, comprising 10,06,962 women, 9,53,350 men, and 308 third-gender electors.

The gender ratio of 1,056 in the final electoral rolls is significantly higher than the national average, the CEO said.

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He said that a total of 56,871 electors have been included and a total of 30,650 voters have been deleted from the draft electoral rolls.

Sinha said that the final electoral rolls of all 60 Assembly Constituencies of Manipur, comprising valley and hill regions, were published on Sunday by the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) concerned.

More than 50 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the two tribal communities in the state since early this year.

At least 306 people have been killed, and 49 remain missing in the ethnic violence that has gripped Manipur since May 2023, Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam told the state assembly on September 3, 2026.

Manipur has been under President rule since February 13, 2025, which was revoked in February this year.

At least 306 people have been killed, and 49 remain missing in the ethnic violence that has gripped Manipur since May 2023, Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam told the state assembly on September 3, 2026.

More than 60,000 displaced after ethnic violence broke out between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities on May 3, 2023. The violence erupted after a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised in the hill districts to protest the Meitei community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe status.