1. Comparison with 2024 voters listHow do the number of SIR-deleted compare with the total numbers of those on the rolls when this government was elected in 2024, those who voted, and the total votes secured by the BJP?2. The SIR-deleted comprise 20.5% of those who voted in 20243. Margins matter in IndiaThe closest election in 2024’s general election was in Mumbai North-West, where Ravindra Dattaram Waikar of the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde’s) won by only 48 votes. There are 17,35,088 voters in this constituency.Lok Sabha elections in the past have been won by just one vote too, in Madhya Pradesh and in Rajasthan.In the 2008 assembly elections in Rajasthan, C.P. Joshi of the Congress lost by one vote to BJP’s Kayan Singh Chouhan.Joshi was a contender for the CM’s post but that election was lost.Former CEC S.Y. Quraishi had said in 2018, “Even for a single vote, the ECI had set up a polling booth in the Gir forest in Gujarat and for just two votes in Arunachal Pradesh on the India-China border.”Stay with the numbers and the facts that matter. For more stories on SIR, click here.