Dimapur, Oct 23: Dimapur DC and District Election Officer Tinojongshi Chang on Thursday said 36,629 electors in three Assembly constituencies under Dimapur district were deleted during the SIR exercise in 2026, bringing the current total in the draft electoral roll to 89,074 from 1,25,703 in 2025.
Presenting the summary report of the draft publication under SIR 2026 for Dimapur district at a review meeting on the SIR of electoral rolls at the DC’s office, Chang said Dimapur-I constituency recorded 8,749 deletions, bringing it down to 16,776 electors in the draft roll from 25,525 electors in 2025, Dimapur-II seat had 60,920 electors in 2025, of which 19,605 were deleted, leaving 41,315 electors, and Dimapur-III constituency recorded 39,258 electors in 2025, but with the deletion of 8,275 names, 30,983 electors were left in the draft roll.
The progress of notice generation and delivery, as well as the receipt and disposal of forms under the revision exercise, was also shared.
As of October 22, a total of 53,806 notices were required to be generated, of which 53,797 have been generated. Of these, 50,835 notices have been delivered, while 2,962 are pending delivery.
The Assembly constituency-wise form summary showed that 2,943 forms had been received between July 26 and October 20, with 939 forms pending disposal across the three Assembly constituencies.
The meeting was attended by Electoral Roll Observer for Dimapur district Sotsula, EROs, AEROs, and representatives of recognised political parties in the district.
Sotsula enquired about issues that might have arisen during field verification, including cases involving deaths, errors in spelling, and other difficulties faced by election officials or political party representatives.