{"id":5534,"date":"2026-04-19T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/west-bengal-assembly-elections-nearly-7-lakh-voters-added-to-electoral-rolls-days-before-phase-1-polling-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:33:36","slug":"west-bengal-assembly-elections-nearly-7-lakh-voters-added-to-electoral-rolls-days-before-phase-1-polling-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/west-bengal-assembly-elections-nearly-7-lakh-voters-added-to-electoral-rolls-days-before-phase-1-polling-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal assembly elections: Nearly 7 lakh voters added to electoral rolls days before Phase 1 polling | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130364947,imgsize-827829,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/article-99.jpg\" alt=\"West Bengal assembly elections: Nearly 7 lakh voters added to electoral rolls days before Phase 1 polling\" title=\"Representative image\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Nearly seven lakh voters have been added to the electoral rolls in West Bengal ahead of the assembly elections, officials said, though detailed demographic data is yet to be released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/election-commission-of-india\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Election Commission of India<\/a>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Of the newly added electorate, about 3.22 lakh are set to vote in the first phase, while nearly 3.88 lakh will cast their ballots in the second phase, a senior official said, quoted by PTI said. However, the commission has not clarified how many of these are first-time voters who have recently turned 18, nor provided a gender-wise break-up.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wLCOS vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"ap_Bf\">\n<div class=\"ZM4zO\">\n<p><i class=\"bo2C4\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Bengal polls: TMC leads at 27%, rivals under 15% women candidates, Women Reservation Bill Row<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Data on Form-6 applications, used for inclusion in electoral rolls, and the number of rejections has also not been disclosed. <!-- -->Officials said only aggregate figures have been released so far, with detailed data maintained separately and likely to be shared later if required.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Following the latest revision, the total electorate in the state stands at 6,82,51,008, a number that may rise further depending on additions ordered by tribunals.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Read full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/have-guts-face-me-directly-didi-dares-bjp-after-i-t-raids\/articleshow\/130361838.cms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">\u2018Have guts? Face me directly,&#8217; says Mamata Banerjee in a &#8216;dare&#8217; to BJP after I-T raids<\/a><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>The development also follows last week\u2019s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) report, which showed West Bengal recorded net deletions of 10.9%, among the highest across states, with large-scale removal of deceased, shifted and duplicate voters.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/west-bengal-assembly-elections-nearly-7-lakh-voters-added-to-electoral-rolls-days-before-phase-1-polling\/articleshow\/130364881.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Nearly seven lakh voters have been added to the electoral rolls in West Bengal ahead of the assembly elections, officials said, though detailed demographic data is yet to be released by the Election Commission of India.Of the newly added electorate, about 3.22 lakh are set to vote in the first phase, while nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}