Delhi draft voter roll drops 4.77 million names after the SIR sweep

Delhi’s house-to-house Special Intensive Revision ran from June 30 to August 17.

The SIR was carried out through house-to-house enumeration to prepare a revised electoral roll.

Delhi had 1,45,10,299 registered electors when the SIR began.

Delhi’s draft electoral roll was published on Monday, August 31, 2026.

About 47.7 lakh electors were left out of the draft roll from about 1.45 crore registered voters.

Nearly one in three Delhi electors, about 33 percent, does not appear on the draft roll.

Officials said Delhi recorded the highest percentage of draft-stage SIR deletions among states and Union Territories, about 33 percent.

The deletion of more than 47 lakh Delhi voters is also among the highest in absolute numbers compared with other SIR states and Union Territories.

The draft roll includes about 97.5 lakh electors whose enumeration forms were received and digitised.

About 67.18 percent of Delhi’s 1,45,10,299 electors had forms digitised during the exercise.

The remaining electors were classed uncollectable under Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate and Others and do not appear on the draft roll.

A poll official said Delhi’s large floating population could be one reason for the high number of deletions.

Digitisation rates varied across Delhi’s 70 Assembly constituencies.

Rohini recorded the highest digitisation rate, about 83.43 percent, while Tughlakabad had the lowest, about 52.15 percent.

Shakurbasti recorded 81.26 percent digitisation, followed by Rajouri Garden at 79.14 percent, Mangolpuri at 78.76 percent and Uttam Nagar at 77.76 percent.

Among constituencies with large minority populations, Seelampur recorded 76.63 percent digitisation, Matia Mahal 75.50 percent, Babarpur 73 percent, Mustafabad 71.91 percent, Ballimaran 67.35 percent and Chandni Chowk 61.02 percent.

Okhla had the highest share of uncollectable forms, 45.32 percent, followed by Chandni Chowk 38.98 percent, Ballimaran 32.65 percent, Mustafabad 28.09 percent, Babarpur 27 percent, Matia Mahal 24.50 percent and Seelampur 23.37 percent.

Booth-level officers, in consultation with booth-level agents, prepared a list of voters whose enumeration forms were not received.

Excluded electors can file claims for inclusion through Form 6 with supporting documents until September 30.

Officials said aggrieved electors can submit Form 6 with a declaration form and supporting documents from August 31 to September 30.

Claims and objections will be examined, with the notice and disposal process continuing until October 29.

Some electors already on the draft roll could receive notices if their details cannot be linked to the 2002 intensive revision roll or if anomalies appear in their forms.

Officials said Aadhaar alone would not be sufficient to establish eligibility where further verification is required.

The number of polling stations in Delhi rose from 13,033 to 14,947, and polling-station locations from 2,696 to 2,856.

Voters can check whether their names appear on the draft roll on the Election Commission’s voter services portal.

The final electoral roll is scheduled to be published on November 4.

PTI reported on August 29 that officials expected around 47.7 lakh names to be left out of the draft roll.

Officials said anomalies can include a name mismatch with the 2002 roll and unusual age gaps between an elector and a parent or siblings.