With municipal elections on the horizon and a hard deadline of June 16, the city has mapped nearly three-quarters of its electorate — but the clock is ticking.

Booth Level Officers are fanning out across Bengaluru’s wards, cross-checking voter names against records that are over two decades old. It’s unglamorous work — but it could decide who gets to vote in the city’s first municipal poll in eleven years.

72%
Mapping work completed in Bengaluru
Jun 16
Electoral roll freeze deadline
88.9L
Registered voters in Greater Bengaluru

What’s happening and why

The Election Commission of India launched the Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, in October 2025 — a nationwide house-to-house drive to weed out duplicate entries, deceased voters, and people who have moved away. In Bengaluru, officials say 72 per cent of the mapping work is complete, with the electoral roll freeze set for June 16.

The timing matters. Bengaluru is heading into its first municipal election since 2015, under the newly formed Greater Bengaluru Authority — five city corporations that replaced the old BBMP. District Election Officer Maheshwar Rao confirmed that all pending voter applications under Forms 6, 6A, 7, and 8 will be cleared before the freeze. After that date, corrections become significantly harder to process.

“Citizens are urged to verify and correct their voter name, address and other details, and to actively participate in mapping the 2025 voter details with the 2002 records.

What you need to do
Check your details on the electoral roll before June 16 — via the EC’s Voter Services Portal or the Voter Helpline app. Miss the window, and you may have to sit out the elections entirely. For a city that has waited eleven years for a municipal vote, that’s a risk not worth taking.