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

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

electionsvoter rollspolitics
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.

3 links

Variables5

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

Open official dictionary
Name / codeDescription
voter recordsParsed individual-level electoral roll entries
polling partPart-level electoral roll files and identifiers
assembly constituencyAC-level grouping for roll and deleted-voter files
roll metadataState-level metadata for each electoral roll or part
deleted votersParsed deleted-voter records from the SIR draft list
Formats

CSV · JSON · metadata · compressed archives

Technical tags
voter-levelelectoral rollsrestricted accesspart-levelresearch archive
Example uses
Typical research and analysis uses for this dataset

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

Research and articles using this data

Verified examples that analyze, reuse, introduce, or visualize this dataset. Search matches without evidence are not published here.

3 verified sources

Scholarly works3

Scholarly checked:
10 Sept 2026
Web checked:
Not checked yet
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.

Pairs well with

Many Indian data problems need survey + administrative combinations.