Archive · 31 Jul 2026
Delhi Electoral Rolls to Delete 20-25% of Names
Delhi is about to change its voter list.
Officials think that between one in four and one in five people on the list might be removed.
This is because many people move around a lot, like workers who change jobs or families that move to new homes.
The government is checking each voter’s address to see if they still live there.
The new list will be ready on August 17, and then the exact number of deletions will be known.
20-25% of Delhi voters may be removed from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision.
The estimate is due to Delhi’s highly mobile population, frequent transfers of government employees, and voters not updating their registration.
Draft electoral rolls will be published on August 17, revealing the exact number of deletions.
Booth level officers are tracing voters who no longer live at their registered addresses.
Challenges include shifting laborers, government employees, and new residential clusters that change the voter list constantly.
- Who
- Delhi election officials, senior official in the office of Delhi chief electoral officer, booth level officers
- What
- Deletion of 20-25% of names from Delhi's electoral rolls
- When
- Ongoing Special Intensive Revision; draft rolls to be published on August 17
- Where
- Delhi, India
- Why
- High mobility, frequent transfers of government employees, and voters not updating their registration
- Estimated deletion percentage
- 20-25%
- Revision type
- Special Intensive Revision (SIR)
- Draft roll publication date
- August 17
- Reason for deletions
- Mobile population, transfers, unupdated registrations
- Location
- Delhi, India