The State Election Commission (SEC) has published a data of the draft voters’ list ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which are likely to be held in the early 2026. This development also comes as the Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) has alleged that there is a mess in the voter list for the assembly elections.
Civic officials on Tuesday, November 25, said currently a drive for deletion of duplicate names from the voters’ list is being carried out.
There are 4.33 lakh voters who have their names enrolled in the voters’ list more than once.
In Mumbai, the total voters or electorate stand at 1.03 crore, which means nearly 10.64% of the total voters have duplicate enrolment in the voters’ list.
However, it has been revealed that duplicate names correspond to 0.433 million voters whose names appear more than once–in some cases twice or thrice while the name of the same person is present 103 times.
In the civic body polls, these voters will not vote at more than one place, which is a big challenge before the Election Commission.
Mumbai’s ward number 199 (Worli) which had former mayor and Sena UBT leader Kishori Pednekar as the last sitting corporator, has the highest number of double voters at 8,207, followed by 7,741 double voters in ward number 131 (Ghatkopar), which had NCP (SP) Rakhee Jadhav as the last sitting corporator. Ward number 203 (Parel-Lalbaug) which had Sindhu Masurkar from Sena UBT as the last sitting corporator has 7,624 registered duplicate voters, and Mumbai’s ward number 205 (Kalachowki), which has 7,585 voters enrolled as duplicate voters, had Sena UBT’s Datta Pongde as the last sitting corporator. Ward number 194 (Century Mill), which has 7,584 duplicate voters enrolled, had Samadhan Sarvankar from Shiv Sena (Shinde) as the last sitting corporator. Samadhan is the son of Sena legislator from Dadar, Sada Sarvankar.
Meanwhile, a senior official from the SEC hinted that owing to the revision of the voters’ list, the civic elections in Mumbai may see a delay.
The BMC elections are expected to be held by the end of January as the Supreme Court has given a deadline of January 31.
To enable such voters to vote at the same place, the Commission will conduct a special door-to-door campaign from November 27 to December 5. In this awareness campaign, information will be given to duplicate voters that they should vote at the same place.
Such voters will have to fill the ‘Appendix 1’ application. Those who do not fill the application, there will be a star in front of their names. Therefore, it will be understood that such voters have duplicate names.
On the day of voting, such voters will have to fill an undertaking that they will vote at the same place.
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