You can check your name in the voter list online in under five minutes, on the Election Commission’s official portal. Go to electoralsearch.eci.gov.in, click “Search in Electoral Roll,” and look yourself up three ways: by your voter ID (EPIC) number, by your name and details, or by your registered mobile number with an OTP. If your name is there, you can vote. If it is not, you can get it added with Form 6 — online or through your booth officer.
Quick answers
Where to check: electoralsearch.eci.gov.in or voters.eci.gov.in — both are official Election Commission of India sites. Three search options: EPIC number, personal details (name, relative’s name, age, gender, constituency), or mobile number + OTP. Name missing? File Form 6 online or offline — you need an age proof, an address proof and a photo. What is SIR? Special Intensive Revision — a deep clean-up of voter lists the EC ran in 2026, which deleted crores of names and triggered protests. It is the reason everyone is checking their names right now.
The 3 ways to check online
1. By EPIC number. This is the fastest way. EPIC is the number printed on your voter ID card (Elector’s Photo Identity Card). Enter it, select your state, fill the captcha, hit Search. Done.
2. By details. No card handy? Enter your name, your father’s or husband’s name, age or date of birth, gender, state, district and assembly constituency. The system will find matching entries. Spelling matters here — if your name is misspelt on the card, this search can miss you. Searching by EPIC avoids that problem.
3. By mobile number. If your mobile number is registered with the EC, enter it, get an OTP on your phone, enter the OTP, and your details appear. The Economic Times’ guide notes this is the most convenient option for people who have their number linked.
What shows up: your name, EPIC number, age, relative’s name, state, district, assembly constituency, polling station, and your part and serial number in the roll. Save the part and serial number — the booth officer’s printed list at the polling station is organised by them.
No internet? Two other ways
SMS. Type ECI <space> your EPIC number — for example, ECI ABC1234567 — and send it to 1950. You get an auto-reply with your name and booth details. No smartphone needed.
Call 1950. The national voter helpline (add your STD code first). An automated voice menu walks you through the check in your language. You can also visit your Booth Level Officer (BLO) — every polling booth has one, and they keep a printed copy of the electoral roll.
Your name is missing. Now what?
First, don’t panic — and don’t assume it is a conspiracy. Names get dropped for ordinary reasons: you shifted house, the spelling changed, or your entry was marked duplicate or deceased by mistake during the SIR clean-up. Here’s the fix.
File Form 6. This is the Election Commission’s form for adding a name to the voter list. You can do it online at voters.eci.gov.in (sign up with your mobile number, pick Form 6, fill your details, upload documents) or offline — the form is free at your BLO’s office or the Electoral Registration Officer’s office. Keep the acknowledgement number; you can track your application status on the same portal.
One important detail from the EC’s September 29 communication, reported by Mint and ET Now: during the SIR phase, Form 6 carried an extra declaration form. In states where SIR is over, that extra declaration is gone — you fill the plain statutory Form 6. If a BLO still asks for the old declaration, that is outdated.
Moved within the same area? Don’t use Form 6 — use Form 8, which is for corrections and address updates to an existing entry. Form 8 cannot add a missing name; only Form 6 does that, per the EC’s own guidance.
Documents you need for Form 6
Three things, all as soft copies (photo or scan, under 2MB each) for the online route:
- Age proof: birth certificate, Aadhaar, PAN card, driving licence, Class 10 or 12 marksheet, or passport — any one
- Address proof: Aadhaar, utility bill (electricity/water/gas), bank passbook, passport, or rent agreement — any one
- A recent passport-size photo
Aadhaar deserves a special mention. The form has a field for your Aadhaar number, but the EC says giving it is voluntary — your application cannot be rejected just because you skipped it. If anyone tells you Aadhaar is mandatory for voter registration, they are wrong.
What is SIR, in simple words
SIR stands for Special Intensive Revision. Think of it as a deep spring-cleaning of the voter list. The Election Commission sends booth officers door to door, checks who actually lives where, adds new voters, and removes names that shouldn’t be there — dead people, duplicates, people who shifted away years ago.
Why now? India hasn’t had a full house-to-house revision since 2002–2004, the EC says. In 21 years, crores of people died, moved cities, or got listed twice. The 2026 SIR ran in phases across the country — Bihar, UP, MP, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and others. The Supreme Court upheld the EC’s power to run it in a May 27, 2026 judgment.
The scale is what shocked people. In UP alone, the draft roll published January 6, 2026 cut the voter count from 15.44 crore to 12.55 crore — nearly 2.9 crore names removed, including 46.23 lakh marked deceased and 2.17 crore marked shifted, per Dainik Bhaskar’s report. Bihar added back 14 lakh voters after the exercise, per Sabrang India. When numbers that big move, mistakes happen — and that is exactly what the protests are about.
Why everyone is checking right now
October has been loud. On October 7, opposition parties protested at all 534 block headquarters across Bihar against alleged wrongful deletions, demanding the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation; district-level demonstrations and a march to Patna’s Lok Bhavan followed on October 8, per the New Indian Express. The Bihar Congress has announced a phased agitation through November — block marches October 10–20, village chaupals October 25 to November 25, and a “Delhi Chalo” march on Constitution Day. The protests reached Delhi too, with detentions at Jantar Mantar on October 10 — read our report on the detentions and the Supreme Court’s Sunday hearing.
Meanwhile the EC has moved to fix genuine errors. Under an October 1 directive, booth officers in the 20 states where SIR is complete are doing house-to-house surveys to find wrongly deleted voters and help them re-enrol through Form 6 — each officer covering 20–25 voters a week, expected to finish in about a month, per GoodReturns. And the EC has capped Form 7 objections — the form used to challenge someone else’s entry — at 10 per person during the claims period, after bulk filings harassed genuine voters, per Mint.
What is still disputed
Be careful with what you read online. As of October 8, no court has ordered a special investigation into the deletions, no prosecution of the CEC has been ordered, and the Supreme Court’s October 5 hearing issued notices but did not suspend anyone, per a legal status tracker. The opposition alleges targeted deletions; the EC and the BJP deny wrongdoing. Former CEC S.Y. Quraishi has asked a sharp question though: if a genuine voter’s name was wrongly deleted, why should they have to re-apply as a brand-new voter? That debate is live, and the courts will decide it.
Track your application and get your digital card
After filing Form 6, track it on voters.eci.gov.in under “Track Application Status” with your reference number. A booth officer may visit your address to verify — that is normal, not a raid. Once approved, you don’t have to wait for the plastic card in the post: download your e-EPIC, the digital voter ID, from the same portal. It is a secure PDF with a QR code, launched on National Voters’ Day 2021, and it works as ID proof just like the physical card. You can also save it in DigiLocker.
One last thing worth knowing: holding a voter ID card does not by itself guarantee you can vote. The Financial Express put it bluntly — only names on the current electoral roll count. Cards get outdated; rolls get revised. Five minutes on the portal beats a wasted trip on polling day.
Which form is which — a quick reference
- Form 6: new registration, or re-adding a deleted name
- Form 6A: for overseas Indian citizens (NRIs)
- Form 7: object to someone else’s inclusion, or request a deletion
- Form 8: correct your own details — spelling, photo, address, date of birth
Check your name today. If it is there, note your booth. If it is not, file Form 6 and keep the acknowledgement number. The roll is the only list that matters.
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