Electoral rolls revision: Draft voters’ list to be published on November 8

The annual revision of the electoral rolls is under way and the draft voters’ list will be published on November 8. To enable citizens to submit applications for addition/deletions or any other change

The annual revision of the electoral rolls is under way and the draft voters’ list will be published on November 8. To enable citizens to submit applications for addition/deletions or any other changes, a special drive will be held on all Sundays of this month.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) chief commissioner Gaurav Gupta, who is also the District Election Officer, told reporters here on November 6 that the voters’ list revision was an annual exercise, not really related to the elections to the civic body. “However, the same list will be used for the BBMP polls whenever it is held,” he said.

Citizens will have time till December 8 to submit applications for either address change within the same Assembly constituency, change of address outside the constituency, addition/deletion, etc. This time around, citizens need not even go to the offices of the assistant revenue officer, booth-level officer or election officer concerned. Applications may be submitted online with the requisite documents, either through the Voter Helpline app that is available on the Google Play Store, or by visiting or