Nearly one-third of Delhi’s 1.45 crore voters likely to be excluded in draft SIR rolls next week
Nearly one third of Delhi's 1.45 crore registered electors are set to be excluded from the draft electoral roll when the Election Commission of India
Nearly One Third of Delhi Voters Face SIR Roll Removal
Theindiapostdaily.com – Nearly one third of Delhi’s 1.45 crore registered electors are set to be excluded from the draft electoral roll when the Election Commission of India publishes its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) results next week. The six-week door-to-door enumeration campaign, which ran from June 30 through Monday, August 17, concluded with 97,20,289 forms uploaded to the ECI’s digital platform — a digitisation rate of 66.99 per cent across the national capital’s 1,45,10,299 registered voters.
The practical implication is significant. More than 45 lakh electors will not appear on the draft roll. The remaining 47.62 lakh names fall under the “uncollectible” designation, a broad category that encompasses voters absent at enumeration time, those who may have relocated or died, duplicate entries, and other unverified records.
Claims, Objections, and the Road to the Final Roll
Electors flagged as absent or shifted retain the right to contest their exclusion. The draft electoral roll is scheduled for publication on August 24, opening a claims-and-objections window that runs through September 23. Following that, the notice-and-disposal phase extends until October 22, and the definitive voters list is expected to be released on October 27. Citizens who believe they have been wrongly omitted should prepare supporting documentation — proof of residence, identity verification, or a relocation affidavit — before the objection deadline lapses.
District-Level Digitisation Performance
Booth-Level Officers conducted household visits across all of Delhi’s districts, distributing forms, assisting electors in completing them, and transmitting completed data to the central platform. Completion rates varied widely:
Outer North topped the list at 75.66 per cent, with roughly 6.30 lakh forms processed. West followed at 73.17 per cent (10.65 lakh), South West at 73.03 per cent (9.71 lakh), North West at 70.83 per cent (9.04 lakh), and North East at 70.79 per cent (13.24 lakh). Central North registered 68.74 per cent, while Old Delhi reached 66.50 per cent.
At the lower end, New Delhi recorded 60.68 per cent and South 61.05 per cent. South East trailed every other district at 55.94 per cent, with 8.71 lakh forms digitised — the weakest performance in the capital.
A Deletion Rate Unprecedented for the Country
The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer’s office estimates that approximately 33 per cent of the electorate will be classified under the absent, shifted, dead, and duplicate (ASDD) categories. Final ASDD tallies were projected to be available by 5 pm on August 17, according to a senior official. If that figure holds, nearly one third of Delhi’s registered voters will vanish from the draft roll in a single revision cycle.
Should the estimate materialise, Delhi’s deletion rate would surpass every state and union territory that has published draft rolls to date. Telangana posted the highest prior removal at 21.59 per cent, followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 19.09 per cent and Uttar Pradesh at 18.7 per cent. No other jurisdiction has approached the scale of exclusion now anticipated in the capital.
The SIR exercise marks the most aggressive single revision of Delhi’s electoral roll in
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