Bihar Final Voter List: Among the enthusiasts of the assembly elections 2025 in Bihar, the Election Commission of India has released the final voter list of the state on Tuesday (30 September 2025). The Commission has published this list on its official website after completing the long process of special intensive revision. This list has not only defined electoral equations redefined, but has also given millions of new voters the right to join this mahaparva of democracy. The most shocking change has been seen in the capital Patna, where 1.63 lakh voters have increased against the draft list.
1.63 lakh new voters entry in Patna
Final voter list figures show that the total number of voters in Patna district has now increased to 48 lakh 15 thousand 294. Whereas in the draft voter list released on 1 August 2025, this number was 46 lakh 51 thousand 694.
increase: After the process of claims and objections that lasted for a month, a total of 1 lakh 63 thousand 600 new voters have been added to the district. In this process new voters were added, flawed names were removed and the cases of transfer were corrected.
Use of technology: This time the Commission has laid special emphasis on the use of technical means, so that a transparent and accurate list can be provided to the voters.
The Commission has appealed to all eligible citizens to go to the official portal and check their names and details, as the name of voting is ensured only by the name of the name in the voter list.
Politics intensified on ‘vote cut’ process: 65 lakh names were cut
Before this SIR process, there was a big process of cutting the name in the voter list of Bihar, which was fiercely discussed in the political corridors.
Initial figures: Before the SIR process started, there were a total of 7 crore 89 lakh 69 thousand 844 voters in Bihar.
high cut: In the format voter list released on 1 August, this number had come down to 7 crore 24 lakh 5 thousand 756, which meant that the names of 65 lakh 63 thousand people were cut in the initial process.
After this major cut, questions were raised in political circles whether so many people were ‘duplicate’ or ‘dead’. However, after the release of the format list, the Election Commission gave notice to 3 lakh people. During this time 2.17 lakh people applied for the name cut, while 16.93 lakh people applied to add the name, which makes it clear that the names of many eligible people were also out of the list.
More than 16 lakh applications came to add name
Claim-objection: In the process which lasted from 1 August to 1 September, 16 lakh 56 thousand 886 people applied to add a new name to the Form-6. Apart from this, 36 thousand 475 applied for adding names and 2 lakh 17 thousand 49 to remove the name.
Further process: The new applications from 1 September to 30 September have not yet been executed, whose execution will start from October 1 after the SIR process is over. Now Aadhaar has also been validated to get the name added.
The release of the final voter list is a decisive step for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, after which all political parties will now finalize their election strategy based on these new equations.
