Nearly 3.72 lakh deleted voters in Murshidabad district of West Bengal have filed appeals. Decisions appear in only 275 cases. The Civic Research Group (CRG) reached this finding in its analysis of SIR 2026 adjudication deletion records.
Murshidabad accounts for 19.43% of all recorded tribunal applications statewide. That is nearly one-fifth of the total. The district has 3,72,240 appeals, and 3,71,965 were pending in CRG’s September 28 dataset. Recorded decisions cover 0.07% of applications. Of the 275 decisions, 260 were approvals and 15 were rejections.
The report recorded 4,44,337 adjudication-phase deletions across the district’s 22 Assembly constituencies. Researchers validated 3,85,456 EPIC numbers against the ECI portal. Of these, 3,72,240 had an appeal recorded. The application rate stands at 96.57% of validated EPIC numbers. This is the highest among the 23 districts in the report.
Samserganj has the highest deletion count among all 294 constituencies, at 71,985. Of its 64,269 validated records, 62,639 had an appeal. Only nine have a recorded decision, seven approvals and two rejections. The other 62,630 are pending.
Lalgola has the second-highest deletion count in the state, at 55,391. It recorded 51,206 applications. Eleven were decided, ten approved and one rejected. A total of 51,195 remain pending.
Murshidabad holds seven of the ten constituencies with the largest adjudication-phase deletion counts in the state.