The Election Commission of India has generated notices for about 3.31 million electors whose names appear in Delhi’s draft electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The notices seek documents or an explanation after officials found that records could not be linked to the previous intensive revision, or that submitted details failed basic consistency checks.
The draft roll, published on 31 August 2026, lists 97.53 lakh electors. That is roughly a third fewer than the 1.45 crore names on the rolls when house-to-house enumeration began on 30 June. About 47.6 lakh electors were kept off the draft after being marked absent, shifted, dead, duplicate or otherwise uncollectable. The 33.1 lakh notices sit on top of that shrinkage: these people are still on the draft list, but their entries have been flagged.
Election officials have stressed that a notice is not a deletion order. Booth Level Officers are delivering the letters. Recipients generally have seven days from service to respond, submit papers or seek more time. Hearings are before Electoral Registration Officers. Documents can also be uploaded through a QR code on the notice. Disposal of notices and claims is scheduled through 29 October. The final roll is due on 4 November. Claims for inclusion by those left off the draft altogether can be filed in Form 6 until 30 September.
Two broad buckets account for almost all of the 33.1 lakh cases. The largest single reason is “no mapping” with the last SIR, widely reported as the 2002 intensive revision. About 13.8 lakh electors fall in this group - roughly 42 per cent of notices. Officials say their current particulars could not be matched to that older roll.
The rest are classed as “logical discrepancies.” About 19.3 lakh names sit in that category. Analysis of the published notice list shows name mismatches dominate: differences between a voter’s present name and the earlier roll, or between a parent’s name as recorded now and then. Parent-name mismatches account for about 24 per cent of notices; self-name mismatches about 17 per cent. Together, name issues cover about 41 per cent of the flagged cases.
Age-gap flags make up about 16 per cent. These include a parent–child age difference of less than 15 years or more than 50 years, a gap of under nine months between siblings, and a grandparent grandchild gap of under 40 years. About 1.4 lakh people (around 4.2 per cent) are marked for six or more children linked to the same parent. A small number - a few hundred are flagged because a parent was treated as ineligible in the last SIR.
Ninety-four per cent of notices list a single reason. About 4 per cent list more than one. The average age of a person on the notice list is about 40; the oldest recorded age is 125. The share of draft-roll electors receiving a notice varies sharply by assembly seat, from about 23 per cent in Matia Mahal to about 44 per cent in Badarpur. North-East district accounts for some of the heaviest volumes.
The notice list, uploaded by the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer, includes serving ministers, opposition leaders, former constitutional office-holders, judges, bureaucrats and public intellectuals. Officials say many of the high-profile cases cluster in the New Delhi assembly constituency.
Among those reported as flagged:
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. Officials have said her papers were later verified and her name is slated for the final Shalimar Bagh roll.
Former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with his parents Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, wife Sunita Kejriwal and son Pulkit Kejriwal, under “no mapping.”
Former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, wife Seema Sisodia (self-name mismatch) and son Meer Sisodia (parent-name discrepancy).
Former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani (98), daughter Pratibha and daughter-in-law Geetika — unmapped with the 2002 SIR. Son Jayant Advani was mapped.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and wife Kyoko Jaishankar — unmapped; voters in Sunehri Bagh, New Delhi.
Former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and wife Sudesh Dhankhar.
Election Commissioner S.S. Sandhu (name mismatch); son Damanbir flagged on a parent-name issue.
Former Union minister Kapil Sibal and wife Promila Sibal.
Former Union minister Subramanian Swamy.
New Delhi MP Bansuri Swaraj.
Delhi minister Parvesh Sahib Singh.
BJP MLA Kailash Gahlot, wife Moushumi Mishra and daughter Jahnavi Gahlot — unmapped.
Former Delhi BJP president Virendra Kumar Sachdeva (self-name mismatch).
BJP leader Amit Malviya (unmapped); his wife flagged for self-name mismatch.
Also reported on the lists: former Supreme Court judges Madan B. Lokur, Arun Mishra and Ranjana Desai; former Election Commissioner Arun Goyal; CAG K. Sanjay Murthy; Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri; SEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey; CBI Director Praveen Sood; former Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi; former Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung; former NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya; former UGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar; principal scientific adviser Ajay Kumar Sood; Ram Mandir construction committee head Nripendra Misra; historian Romila Thapar; lawyers Indira Jaising, Dushyant Dave, Anand Grover and Abhishek Manu Singhvi; Delhi Archbishop Anil Couto; and others including former home secretary Valmiki Prasad and urban planner K.T. Ravindran.
