India, Oct. 4 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday published the final electoral rolls for Uttarakhand after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The final roll has 7.16 million electors, reflecting a net contraction of 10.1% compared to the roll before the exercise.

The final roll for Uttarakhand has 25,164 or 0.4% more names on it than the draft roll published on July 14, which had 7.13 million electors. This is the result of 129,872 additions and 104,708 deletions after July 14 during the claims and objections phase.

The final SIR numbers mean that most deletions under the SIR exercise took place in the draft stage itself, when 827,000 or 10.4% of the 7.96 million pre-SIR electors were del...