Four in ten voters missed in 25 city seats. Their names will not be on Maharashtra’s 31 August draft roll.

In 25 urban Assembly seats, Special Intensive Revision forms for more than four in ten voters could not be collected. Those names will not be in the draft roll due on 31 August.

The twenty-five constituencies are all city seats among Maharashtra’s 288 Assembly constituencies. Of them, seventeen sit in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, seven in Pune and one in Nagpur. Together they hold 1.10 crore electors. Of those, 48.17 lakh — 43.7 percent — could not be traced for form collection. Nearly a quarter of all uncollected forms in the State sit inside these twenty-five urban seats. Four in ten is the urban miss rate on this card. It is not a deletion order. Uncollected means not yet on the draft. Claims can still bring a name back.

Statewide the miss is smaller in percentage and larger in absolute count. Forms of 2.07 crore of Maharashtra’s 9.78 crore electors — 21.16 percent — could not be collected. Those voters must file claims if they want their names on the roll. Two crore and seven lakh is a statewide uncollected figure. Nine crore and seventy-eight lakh is the statewide elector base on this page. This desk will not invent a constituency-wise party split, a migrant count, or a booth map the tip does not lock.

Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam has linked the high urban uncollectable share to population mobility. The intensive revision, on the same account, comes after more than twenty-four years; the previous Special Intensive Revision was in 2002. About 34 lakh deceased names are also to be accounted for. Mobility, a twenty-four-year gap and a deceased-name scrub are the CEO’s explanation lines. They are not a finding that every uncollected form is a dead or shifted elector. That test belongs to the claims window.

The house-to-house exercise ran from 30 June to 18 August. The draft electoral roll is to be published on 31 August. Claims and objections open after that draft. The final roll is scheduled for 19 October on this page. Those are the locked timetable lines: enumeration closed 18 August, draft 31 August, final 19 October. A draft is not a final roll. A final roll is not a notification of elections.

No Form B sits on this filing. No poll date sits on this filing. Not notified means not notified. This desk will not invent a gazetted election date, a party-wise objection strategy, or a figure for how many of the 48.17 lakh will return through claims. A Special Intensive Revision cleans a roll; it does not, by itself, notify an Assembly election.

Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur hold the twenty-five urban seats that missed hardest. Maharashtra’s Chief Electoral Officer’s office holds the statewide paper. This desk will not invent a ward address, an enumerator’s route slip, or a school name that hosted a collection camp beyond what the tip locks.

Until the draft appears on 31 August and the final on 19 October, the public ledger is twenty-five all-urban Assembly seats with more than 40 percent forms uncollected, seventeen Mumbai Metropolitan Region seats plus seven in Pune and one in Nagpur, 1.10 crore electors in those seats with 48.17 lakh — 43.7 percent — untraced, a nearly one-quarter share of the State’s uncollected forms, a statewide 2.07 crore uncollected of 9.78 crore electors at 21.16 percent, a CEO line on urban mobility and a revision after more than twenty-four years since 2002, about 34 lakh deceased names still to be accounted for, a house-to-house window from 30 June to 18 August, claims after the 31 August draft, and a final roll dated 19 October on this page. Urban miss is the story. Form B and a poll date are not yet written.