One-third of Delhi’s 70 ACs have fewer electors than the turnout in 2025 Assembly polls
Recent electoral roll revisions in Delhi have resulted in 24 constituencies having fewer registered voters than the number of people who actually cast ballots in the 2025 Assembly elections. This discrepancy raises questions about the accuracy and transparency of the Election Commission's deletion process.
Why it matters
Discrepancies in voter rolls threaten the integrity of democratic processes and raise concerns about disenfranchisement in a major urban center.
In more than one third of the 70 constituencies in Delhi, the number of deletions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process has been so high that the draft roll in these 24 seats have been left with fewer electors than the actual number of those who voted in the February 2025 Assembly elections – the most recently held in the Union Territory.
These 24 ACs together had 49.1 lakh voters when Delhi went to polls, of which 28.9 lakh (58.9%) voted. However, the 24 ACs now have only 27.7 lakh voters, which is 1.23 lakh fewer than those who voted in 2025.
The Tughlakabad constituency is where the SIR process has made the deepest cut in these terms. In the draft rolls now, there are only 1,00,386 electors, which is 14,575 fewer than the 1,14,961 voters who turned out to vote in 2025.
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