Election Commission to announce names of all eligible voters in Assam Gram Sabhas, municipal wards

Guwahati: Election Commission has decided to launch a special campaign where the names of all eligible electorates would be publicly announced in Gram Sabhas and in Municipal wards across the state.

This will be the first time that Assam will resort to publicly announcing the electoral roll for ensuring maximum transparency and accuracy. On December 27, The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced that it concluded the House-to-House (H2H) verification phase of the Special Revision (SR) in Assam. The total electors are 2,52,02,775.

Chief Electoral Officer, Assam Anurag Goel said this and added that while in rural areas the public announcement would be done in Gram Sabhas, in urban areas the announcement would be done in Municipal wards.


He said that the campaign would be conducted either on January 3, 4 and January 10, 11. "We have finalized these four dates for the campaign. However, the District Commissioners of the concerned district would finalize the date for the district.”

Goel said that the state has recently published the integrated draft electoral roll after the Special Revision in respect of all the legislative assembly constituencies in the state.

"The draft roll reflects 2,52,01,624 electorates representing a 1.35 percent increase from the previous final roll published in January 2025," he said adding that Assam has more female voters than male with the number of female voters rising to 1,26,28,662.

He said that there are 2,45,084 young voters already registered with the integrated draft rolls. The CEO, however, said that the number of young voters (18 to 19 years) is likely to increase.

"During the house-to-house survey by our Booth Level Officers we recorded 6,27,000 young voters. However, inclusion of their names in the final electoral rolls is subject to their application. They have to apply for inclusion using Form 6," he said.

"Now that the integrated draft roll is published, the period for filing claims and objections will be from December 27 to January 22, 2026," Goel said adding that the final electoral roll will be published on February 10, 2026

The CEO further informed that the number of polling stations have also increased to 31,486 this time.

The CEO said assembly elections are expected to be announced and the dates of the elections are likely to be announced by the end of February of the first half of March next year.

There are around 93, 021 Doubtful voters. Doubtful voters excluded the total number of electors stood at 2,51,09,754.

Office of Chief Electoral officer Assam in a statement had stated that 61,03,103 households across the state were visited and there was 100 percent coverage. The number of deceased in the voter list stood at 4,78,992 names. Around 5,23,680 electors found to have moved from their registered locations.

The statement had stated it found 53,619 demographically similar entries identified for correction. The successful completion of the H2H phase involved a massive administrative machinery, including 35 District Election Officers (DEOs), 126 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and 1,260 AEROs, over 29656 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and 2578 BLO Supervisors besides significant participation from political parties, with 61,533 Booth Level Agents.

The CEO statement added that in Assam, the purification of electoral rolls during the current SR cycle is a meticulous administrative effort focused on enhancing the integrity of the electoral roll ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. The purification drive aims to prepare an error free electoral roll by facilitating enrolment of eligible un-enrolled electors, correction of clerical errors in such as name, age, address, etc, removing names of deceased persons, shifting of electors, identifying and deleting multiple entries where a single elector is registered in more than polling station or constituency.

The rationalization exercise was accorded approval by the Election Commission of India. After rationalization, Assam now has a total number of 31486 polling stations which are reflected in the draft roll.

The SR of electoral roll started on November 22. The Special Revision, ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) under Section 21 of the Representation of the People's Act 1950 in election-bound Assam, with January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date.

In poll-bound states, including West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the exercise Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is being carried out. In Assam SIR was deferred due to incomplete National Register of Citizens.