Phase 3 of SIR in 16 States, 3 U.T.s from May 30, says EC

15 MAY 2026

The Election Commission of India (EC) announced the schedule for Phase 3 of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 16 States and three Union Territories beginning May 30, 2026.
The EC said that with this phase, the exercise would cover the entire country, except Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The SIR schedule for these States would be announced later after considering the completion of Phase 2 of the Census and due consideration of the weather in the upper reaches or snow-bound areas.

Phase 3 SIR

The States and Union Territories where the SIR-3 will be carried out in a staggered manner are Delhi, Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Telangana, Punjab, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Tripura, Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
The combined voter base of these States is 36.73 crore.
The final electoral rolls of the States undergoing the SIR under this phase will be published on different dates this year, beginning with Odisha, Sikkim, Mizoram and Manipur on September 6, 2026 and ending with Tripura on December 23, 2026.
The final voter lists of Delhi, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra and Jharkhand will be out on October 7, 2026.

Phase 2 SIR

Phase 2 SIR was announced on October 27, 2025 in 12 states/UTs; Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.
The exercise had already been conducted.
The voter base across the 12 States and Union Territories stood at more than 50.99 crore when phase 2 of the SIR was announced by the EC and now the figure stood at 45.81 crore — a decline of over 5.18 crore, which was around 10.2%.

Phase 1 SIR

Phase 1 of the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was conducted mainly in the state of Bihar during 2025.
In Assam, due to legalities of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a “special revision” was conducted.

3.94 lakh BLOs for Phase 3 SIR

Over 3.94 lakh booth-level officers (BLOs) will go house-to-house assisted by 3.42 lakh booth-level agents (BLAs) appointed by political parties during the enumeration phase, the poll body said in a statement.

SIR Rules

The rules of the Phase 3 SIR would be the same as those of the Phase 2. While announcing the Phase 2 on October 27, 2025, the EC had introduced certain changes with learnings from Bihar where the first phase had been carried out.
The most important of them was that no documents were to be collected from electors during the enumeration phase.
Aadhaar had been added as the 12th document as directed by the Supreme Court, but only as proof of identity and not of citizenship.
Fresh voter registrations were also carried out simultaneously during house-to-house enumeration.