Tamil Nadu SIR: Final electoral roll out, more than 70 lakh names removed, total tally now stands at 5.67 crore

racts with a voter as he checks and collects filled enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik on Monday announced that the final electoral roll in the state has been published following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

According to the preliminary information names of around 70 lakh people were removed from the final list and the state now (update post SIR) has a total of 5.67 voters.

The District Election Officers (who are Collectors) released the numbers in their respective districts. Later, Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik held a press conference in the afternoon at Chennai, announcing the details.

Patnaik said as many as 4,38,425 applications were received for deletion from voter list between the claims and objections period from December 19, 2025 and January 30, 2026. Of them, 4,23,172 entries have been deleted in final electoral roll.

Addressing journalists, she said there are 5,67,07,380 electors across the State, as per the final electoral roll. This includes 2,77,38,925 men, 2,89,60,838 women and 7,617 third gender voters.

Following an order of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI), on January 30 said that they had instructed that the list of the names of the persons figuring in the category of “logical discrepancies” shall be displayed at the gram panchayat bhawans, public places and Taluka/Sub-Division, including the ward offices in urban areas.