An analysis of Tamil Nadu’s electoral rolls prepared after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise shows that about 2.6 lakh more women than men have been deleted from the Draft Electoral Roll. More than 49.9 lakh women have been deleted from the pre-SIR rolls. The Draft Electoral Roll published on Friday recorded about 97.3 lakh deletions in total. The Hindu Data Team found a similar skew in Bihar’s 2025 SIR exercise, where seven lakh more women were deleted than men. At the start of 2025, in January, women electors outnumbered men by over 12 lakh in Tamil Nadu.

Source: The Hindu December 22, 2025 03:00 UTC