More than 74 lakh persons have been removed from the final voter list of Tamil Nadu as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, the Election Commission said on Monday.
The final list showed that the state has 5.6 crore voters.
Tamil Nadu had 6.4 crore electors when the exercise began on October 27. In December, when the draft rolls were published, the names of 97.3 lakh persons were removed.
According to the Election Commission, 27.5 lakh eligible voters were added to the list during the claims and objections period, which concluded on January 30. A total of 4.2 lakh names were deleted during this phase.
Assembly elections will be held in the state in April or May.
Tamil Nadu is among the 12 states and Union Territories where the Election Commission is conducting the special intensive revision of voter rolls.
Among these states and Union Territories, the final electoral rolls of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are yet to be published.
The states where final rolls have been released are Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Goa. Among Union Territories, the exercise has been completed in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Puducherry and Lakshadweep.
In these states and Union Territories, almost 8% or 1.7 crore names have been removed from the final voter lists.
In Bihar, where the revision was completed ahead of the Assembly polls in November, at least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final electoral roll.
Concerns had been raised after the announcement in Bihar that the exercise could remove eligible voters from the roll.
Several petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court against the voter roll revision.
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