# Bihar 67.25% turnout topped US, UK, France after roll revision: CEC 2026-08-16T10:43:02+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday said Bihar’s 67.25% voter turnout in the 2025 assembly polls was higher than that recorded in the US, the UK, France, Spain and Japan. Speaking at Patna airport, Kumar credited a three-month Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that removed around 70 lakh names, leading to a sharp rise in voting. The turnout was the highest in the state since Independence, the Election Commission said. Kumar is on a two-day visit to Bihar and will interact with booth-level officers at Nalanda University in Rajgir on Monday. He will also launch Electoral Literacy Club 2.0 and the ECINET platform in Patna, the Deccan Chronicle and the Times of India reported. The CEC will visit Sitamarhi, Madhubani and Vaishali to meet district election officials and tour historic sites linked to Bihar’s democratic heritage. ## Coverage - deccanchronicle.com - timesofindia.indiatimes.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-16T11:18:09+00:00. Tags: Bihar, Election Commission of India, Gyanesh Kumar, SVEEP Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/bihar-2025-poll-turnout-beats-us-uk-france-spain-japan-cec/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/bihar-2025-poll-turnout-beats-us-uk-france-spain-japan-cec/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/