India, Feb. 22 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) published the final electoral roll for Goa on Saturday after the completion of the nearly four-month-long Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, reflecting a contraction of 2.5% compared to the draft roll and 10.8% compared to the pre-SIR roll. This makes Goa the only state so far to see a decline in the number of electors compared to the draft roll. All other nine states/UTs where SIR has been completed since last year have seen the number of electors increase between the draft and final roll.

Goa's rolls had 1,185,034 electors on October 27 last year, before the SIR exercise began. This count decreased to 1,084,992 in the draft roll published after the enumeration phase of th...