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This is the fifth and final piece of a series on how the adjudication process of the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal continues in Bengal. Read part one, here, part two, here, and part three, here, and part four, here.

The final electoral roll for booth 106 in Samserganj, published on February 28, 2026, lists 1,361 voters at Chandnidaha Primary School in Pratapganj gram panchayat, Murshidabad. Many of the entries carry a stamp across the face of the voters, reading ‘UNDER ADJUDICATION.’

The judicial review that followed marked 810 of those 1,361 electors not eligible. That is 427 men and 383 women, and 59.5% of the booth.

At this typical booth in West Bengal, about one voter in a hundred was marked not eligible.

Across West Bengal the judicial review marked 27,05,027 electors not eligible, spread across 80,719 booths. Half of those booths lost fewer than 10 electors and one in seven lost none at all. One booth in 40 accounts for a quarter of everyone marked not eligible, and one in 12 accounts for half.

What this indicates is an un-uniform review that happened intensively in a few places and barely happened elsewhere. Samserganj alone has 36 of the 100 worst-hit booths in the state. Across its 247 booths, it lost 71,983 electors, and its typical booth lost 319 people, where the typical booth in West Bengal lost nine.

Counts alone cannot show the picture clearly, because losing 810 from an electoral roll of 1,361 is a different event than losing 810 from a roll of 5,000. Measured against each booth’s own published roll, the worst in West Bengal is part 103 at Dakshin Chakasapur Primary School in Samserganj, where 669 of 1,061 electors – or 63.1% – were marked not eligible. The Chandnidaha 105 booth lost 63%, Chandnidaha 106 lost 59.5%, Panchutola 39 in Baisnabnagar lost 58.5%, and Dakshin Chakasapur 102 lost 58.3%. Seven of the eight highest shares in West Bengal are in Samserganj.

Across the state, 49 booths had half or more of........

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