US Edition2,208 Booths in Bengal Under Scanner After No Dead, Duplicate Voter Found
West Bengal CEO requested detailed reports on 2,208 booths with perfect enumeration amid scrutiny of over 7,000 booths showing minimal uncollectable voter forms.
- On December 02, 2025, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal flagged more than 7,000 polling booths for recording zero to ten 'uncollectable' forms, with around 2,208 booths showing none.
- Nearly 4,764 booths' collection patterns show Booth-Level Officers recorded between one and 10 uncollectable forms, while Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday sought an audit of about 1.25 crore entries.
- Sources in the CEO's office said around 45 lakh forms remain uncollectable, with nearly 22.2 lakh dead, 6.4 lakh untraceable, 16.22 lakh shifted, and about 1 lakh fake or duplicate voters, and booth counts show small-number gaps.
- The Election Commission of India has launched scrutiny of flagged booths, and Manoj Kumar Agarwal ordered District Electoral Officers to report and Booth-Level Officials to tally deaths and fix errors via the BLO app.
- With 80,661 polling booths in West Bengal, 99.92% of electors received forms and 97.34% have been digitised as of December 02, 2025.
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2,208 booths in Bengal under scanner after no dead, duplicate voter found
2,208 booths in Bengal under scanner after no dead, duplicate voter found A total of 2,208 booths in West Bengal are under the scanner after all the distributed enumeration forms were returned filled up, indicating that there is not a single dead, duplicate or untraceable voter in these booths, EC sources said.Among such booths, the highest 760 is in South 24 Parganas district, followed by 228 in Purulia and 226 in Murshidabad, they said. Howrah…
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madhyamamonline.comSIR in Bengal: No single deceased or duplicate voter in 2,208 booths, says ECI
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI), till Monday evening, has identified 2,208 polling booths in West Bengal which do not have a single deceased voter or duplicate voter having names in two places or any voter who has shifted elsewhere. An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that the maximum number of such booths without a single deceased voter or duplicate voter or shifted voter had been i…
EC brings down figure, says no dead or duplicate voters in 480 booths in Bengal till Dec 2
Kolkata, Dec 2 (PTI) The Election Commission on Tuesday revised the number of polling booths from which all distributed enumeration forms were returned during the SIR of electoral rolls, bringing the figure significantly down to 480 from the earlier 2,208.This implies that there is not a single dead, duplicate or untraceable voter in any of these 480 booths, EC officials said.West Bengal has a little over 78,000 booths, spread across 294 assembl…
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