New Delhi: The rural panchayat electoral rolls and urban local body electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh account for 16.91 crore voters, while at present the total number of electors in the assembly rolls stand at 13.46 crore, revealing a gap of nearly 3.45 crore voters, whose names are missing from the state’s assembly electoral rolls, reported Times of India.Ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the state could see the addition of more than one crore voters to its electoral rolls as part of the ongoing Special Summary Revision (SSR), UP chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa told TOI.Uttar Pradesh had 15.4 crore voters in the assembly electoral rolls before the start of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in October 2025. Subsequently, the names of over 2 crore voters were deleted from the state’s electoral rolls after the SIR, with the total number of electors coming down to 13.39 crore after the revision of electoral rolls. By October 7, 2026, the number rose to 13.46 crore.Uttar Pradesh CEO Rinwa told TOI that while the rural panchayat electoral rolls finalised on June 10, 2026, had 12.58 crore voters, urban local body electoral rolls published on April 2, 2023, list 4.33 crore electors.When this figure is compared with 13.46 crore electors in the Election Commission of India’s (ECI’s) assembly rolls as of Oct 7, 2026, it leaves a numerical gap of around 3.45 crore voters.“There is a clear difference between the two lists. This is despite the fact that assembly electoral rolls have four qualifying dates, whereas panchayat rolls have only one,” Rinwa told the newspaper.CEO Rinwa added that the UP assembly electoral rolls currently have about 10.20 crore rural voters against 12.58 crore in the recently revised panchayat rolls, which reveals a difference of around 2.38 crore voters.Similarly, assembly electoral rolls in urban areas currently have around 3.36 crore urban voters compared with 4.33 crore electors in urban local body rolls, a gap of nearly 97 lakh.As part of the latest drive, fair-price shop dealers will help identify eligible residents missing from electoral rolls, while ASHA workers, ANMs, anganwadi workers and members of women’s self-help groups will focus on enrolling women voters.Earlier, the ECI announced the process for updating and cleaning up the voter list under the SSR in 17 states and Union Territories, with a heavy emphasis on “special drives” to enrol new voters, especially those turning 18.The decision follows revelations that two Election Commissioners strongly disagreed, in writing, with the way the SIR of voter lists was being carried out across the country since 2025.Recently stung by the anger of Gen Z voters, who could not enrol since the 2024-25 SSR, the ECI is now returning to the tried-and-tested annual revision cycle that it had paused while it undertook the cross-country SIR since 2025. This SIR has so far excluded around 13 crore voters, sparking immense public anger and demands for Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar to quit and to scrap the SIR voter lists.For our full coverage on the SIR and the issues it has brought to citizens, click here.