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India Electoral Rolls · SIR deleted voters

India's Electoral Rolls (2024-25) and Deleted Voter Records (SIR Draft, 2025-26)

Name: India's Electoral Rolls (2024-25) and Deleted Voter Records (SIR Draft, 2025-26)
Creator: Sharik Laliwala, University of California, Berkeley

This restricted-access Dataverse deposit provides parsed Indian electoral rolls and SIR draft deleted-voter records for research on voter registration and electoral administration.

Data-use agreementCore referenceMixed / restricted inputsVery largeGood starting dataset

Sharik Laliwala · 2025 · Harvard Dataverse

elections voter rolls politics

Host / institution

Harvard Dataverse · Sharik Laliwala, University of California, Berkeley

Geography

India, state, assembly constituency, polling part, individual voter

Time coverage

2024-25 electoral rolls and 2025-26 SIR draft deleted-voter records

Update frequency

Research deposit; latest Dataverse version released 2026

What this is best for

Voter-roll and electoral-administration research that needs part-level or individual-level parsed records with documented access controls

Main limitations

Files are restricted because they contain de-identified human-subjects voter records; access requires a request form, IRB approval or exemption, and data-protection commitments

Quick answers

Short research-facing answers derived from this catalog record.

What is Electoral Rolls & Deleted Voters used for?: Voter-roll and electoral-administration research that needs part-level or individual-level parsed records with documented access controls
How do you access Electoral Rolls & Deleted Voters data?: Electoral Rolls & Deleted Voters is labeled “Data-use agreement” on this guide. Open the access portal or documentation links on the record for the current host process—do not assume open download if registration or a DUA is required.
What geography and time does Electoral Rolls & Deleted Voters cover?: Geography: India, state, assembly constituency, polling part, individual voter. Time coverage: 2024-25 electoral rolls and 2025-26 SIR draft deleted-voter records.
What are the main limitations of Electoral Rolls & Deleted Voters?: Files are restricted because they contain de-identified human-subjects voter records; access requires a request form, IRB approval or exemption, and data-protection commitments

Guides for using this data

Official portals, user guides, codebooks, and tutorials for access and analysis.

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Variables5

Harvard Dataverse file descriptions and project GitHub codebook. Representative fields for the page table — verify the full dictionary on the official site.

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Name / code	Description	Group
voter records	Parsed individual-level electoral roll entries	Electors
polling part	Part-level electoral roll files and identifiers	Geography
assembly constituency	AC-level grouping for roll and deleted-voter files	Geography
roll metadata	State-level metadata for each electoral roll or part	Documentation
deleted voters	Parsed deleted-voter records from the SIR draft list	Revision records

Formats

CSV · JSON · metadata · compressed archives

Technical tags

voter-levelelectoral rollsrestricted accesspart-levelresearch archive

Example uses

Studying voter-roll coverage, deleted-voter records, electoral-roll revision, and administrative variation across constituencies

Academic identifiers

Data DOI: 10.7910/DVN/YNEY6G

Laliwala, S. 2025. India's Electoral Rolls (2024-25) and Deleted Voter Records (SIR Draft, 2025-26). Harvard Dataverse. DOI 10.7910/DVN/YNEY6G.

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Pairs well with

Many Indian data problems need survey + administrative combinations.