Sunita Somvanshi
A Delhi electoral-roll audit has put one number at the centre of a political dispute: excluded electors in the draft roll exceeded the 2025 winning margin in 68 of Delhi’s 70 Assembly seats. The study was released by Voter Adhikar Manch and Sabar Institute, using records attributed to the Election Commission of India and Delhi’s chief electoral officer.
The reported figures are large. Delhi’s roll had 1,56,14,000 electors on January 31, 2025. By June 30, 2026, when the Special Intensive Revision began, it stood at 1,45,10,299. During the SIR, 47,27,762 electors were marked absent, shifted, dead or duplicate, equal to 32.8 percent of the SIR base.
The strongest caveat is also the most important one. A draft-roll exclusion or ASDD marking is not the same as a final deletion after claims and objections. Voters still need the official claims process and local electoral office route to correct records.
The margin comparison is useful because it gives scale. It does not prove that any constituency result would have changed. It says the number of affected names is larger than the earlier victory gap in most seats.
That distinction matters for voters as much as for parties. Anyone unsure about their name should check the official electoral-roll route rather than relying only on political statements or screenshots.
The article covered the audit’s 68-seat margin comparison, the 47.27 lakh ASDD figure, and the difference between draft-roll marking and final deletion.
Related Karmactive context includes this earlier report, this linked update.
