ECI extends SIR in Andhra Pradesh: enumeration till July 24, final roll on October 3
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Residents collect and verify enumeration forms with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. File | Photo Credit: Ramakrishna G
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday (July 14, 2026) extended the house-to-house enumeration under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Andhra Pradesh till July 24, pushing the draft publication to July 31 and the final publication to October 3.
With the original deadline for the SIR set to conclude on July 14, the Commission’s directive ensures an extended timeline for electoral preparations. The Commission revised its May 14 schedule following a request from the Chief Electoral Officer, made in a letter dated July 14; various political parties had also been seeking an extension of the ongoing process. According to the updated schedule, house-to-house visits by Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will continue until July 24, 2026, with the rationalisation and re-arrangement of polling stations also slated for completion by that date.
The Election Commission of India’s letter revising the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll in Andhra Pradesh, issued on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ECI
The draft publication of the electoral roll is now scheduled for July 31, 2026. Subsequently, the window for filing claims and objections will open from July 31 to August 30, 2026, with their disposal running from July 31 to September 28, 2026. The process will culminate in the final publication of the electoral roll on October 3, 2026, with July 1, 2026 as the qualifying date. The ECI has directed officials to provide wide publicity to these modifications and ensure all stakeholders, including political parties, are formally notified.
The extension comes with the enumeration all but done on paper. Every one of the State’s 4.16 crore electors had been handed a form by July 13, according to the Chief Electoral Officer’s bulletin, and 98.32% of the forms had been digitised. Parvathipuram Manyam, Alluri Sitharama Raju, and Eluru had finished the job.
Status Report on SIR in Andhra Pradesh as on: 13th July, 2026 4.00PM#SIR2026#CEOAndhra#ECI#VoterAwareness@ECISVEEPChief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh pic.twitter.com/Duwm3I6tEe
The gap is elsewhere. NTR district had digitised 95.43% of its forms, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore 95.67%, Y.S.R. Kadapa district 96.40% and Visakhapatnam 96.56%, together accounting for the bulk of the nearly seven lakh forms still to be entered. It is this unfinished digitisation, spread across 46,397 BLOs’ work, that the revised schedule now gives time to close.
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