Shillong, Oct 26: The Election Department, Meghalaya on Sunday published the final photo electoral rolls for all 60 Assembly Constituencies following completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 with October 1 as the qualifying date.
According to Chief Electoral Officer Dr. B.D.R. Tiwari, the final electoral strength of the state now stands at 21,83,963 electors, including 10,59,743 males, 11,24,216 females and four third gender voters. This marks a net increase of 14,720 voters over the draft roll published on August 5, but a significant drop from the pre-SIR figure of 23,49,645 electors.
The revision was undertaken across all 12 districts wherein booth level officers conducted house to house verification from June 30 to July 29. During the exercise, out of 23,49,645 enumeration forms distributed, 21,69,243 were collected back while 1,80,402 could not be collected. The uncollected forms were categorized as absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate and others and were excluded from the draft roll.
The draft electoral roll published on August 5 had 21,69,243 electors. Subsequently, notices were issued to 6,51,735 electors comprising 2,22,786 unmapped electors and 4,28,949 electors with logical discrepancies. Hearings were completed for all cases and 6,724 names were deleted after due process.
During the claims and objections period from August 5 to September 18, the department received and accepted 21,694 applications for inclusion, 2,276 for shifting, 2,526 for deletion and 12,860 for correction of particulars.
The final roll has a gender ratio of 1061 and an EP ratio of 606. Electors have been advised to verify their names through the Voters Services Portal, the CEO Meghalaya website, ECINET Mobile App, BLOs and ERO offices.
The CEO also informed that a special drive will be undertaken across the state to facilitate enrolment of left out electors, young first-time voters, senior citizens, persons with disabilities and those whose names were in the pre-SIR roll but are not reflected in the final roll. The final rolls will also be made available to recognised political parties, while appealing to all eligible citizens to verify their names to ensure no eligible elector is left behind.
