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The draft electoral roll for the Greater Bengaluru Authority area, prepared under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), was released on 24 August 2026 and lists 56,99,660 voters.
It was released by M. Maheshwar Rao, District Election Officer and Chief Commissioner of the Greater Bengaluru Authority, and covers 28 Assembly constituencies under the District Election Officer, Bengaluru.
As many as 46,88,703 electors from the earlier draft of 16 June have been placed in the Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others (ASDD) category.
Claims and objections are open from 24 August to 23 September 2026, disposal continues to 22 October, and the final roll is to be published on 27 October 2026.
The revision is the pre-condition for the long-delayed municipal elections to Bengaluru's five new city corporations, for which the Supreme Court on 17 July 2026 extended the deadline from 31 August to 31 December 2026.
The elected term of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ends; the city is run by administrators thereafter.
The Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 comes into force, replacing the BBMP Act, 2020.
The Karnataka Legislative Council passes the Greater Bengaluru Governance (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
The Greater Bengaluru Authority is constituted.
The final notification dissolves the BBMP and creates five municipal corporations with 369 wards.
The Second Amendment Act, 2025 receives the Governor's assent, expanding the Authority's membership.
The Supreme Court extends the deadline for the corporation elections to 31 August 2026.
The Supreme Court, on a plea citing the ongoing SIR, extends the deadline further to 31 December 2026 and warns against any further delay.
The SIR draft electoral roll listing 56,99,660 voters is published.
Inserted Part IXA and the Twelfth Schedule into the Constitution, giving municipalities constitutional status and a fixed five-year term, and requiring elections to be completed before the term expires.
Vests the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all municipal elections in the State Election Commission.
The parallel provision for panchayats; it fixes the five-year term and requires elections before its expiry, the standard the courts apply when civic polls are delayed.
The state law that replaced the BBMP Act, 2020, created the Greater Bengaluru Authority and enabled the division of the city into five corporations.
GS Paper 2 > Devolution of Powers to Local Levels; Constitutional Bodies; Urban Local Government
General Awareness > Indian Polity and Current Affairs
For election to the Lok Sabha, a nomination paper can be filed by
Answer: any citizen of India whose name appears in the electoral roll of a constituency.
An intensive, house-to-house re-verification of an existing electoral roll, as against the routine summary revision, in which every entry must be re-established with reference to a stated qualifying date.
Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others - the categories under which existing entries are flagged during a revision for deletion or further verification.
The officer, usually the District Magistrate or an equivalent, responsible for the preparation and revision of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections in a district.