The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls emerged as one of the most politically contentious issues in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections. Months before polling, the exercise ...

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Here, we decode the data based on different thresholds.To understand the possible effect of SIR, the most obvious starting point is to check the seats where voter deletions were larger than the margin ...

The 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections have culminated in a historic and seismic shift in the state's political landscape. For the first time since Independence, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ...

West Bengal, where the assembly polls concluded on Wednesday, recorded a voter turnout of close to 92%, the highest in the State’s electoral history according to provisional figures released by the ...

Contrasting seat outcomes: BJP gained heavily in many high-deletion seats, but TMC retained dominance in some minority-heavy constituencies despite large voter removals. Voter list additions: Data ...

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As many as 27 lakh voters were placed “under adjudication” and effectively out of the voter rolls in West Bengal just before the 2026 elections using a secret algorithm. Was it a “logical discrepancy” ...