The number of names deleted from the draft voter list in Delhi as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls exceeded the 2025 winning margins in 68 of the national capital’s 70 Assembly seats, a study by Sabar Institute showed on Friday.In the draft voter list released on Monday, more than 47 lakh names were deleted. The names account for about 33% of the Union Territory’s electorate.Of those removed, 43.3 lakh names, or 29.8% of the electorate, were marked as absent or permanently shifted. About 2.8 lakh persons were marked as dead and 1.4 lakh as excluded for having been enrolled at multiple places.More than 20 lakh deletions in Delhi were in the 30 to 44 age group.Voters can file claims and objections against their exclusion from the draft list between August 31 and September 30. The appeals will be heard by October 29. The final electoral roll will be published on November 4.Deletions and winners’ marginsIn 24 seats, more votes were cast in the 2025 polls than the number of electors in the draft list published on Monday. In 36 seats, more voters have been removed than all votes polled by the winner.In the Assembly polls held in February 2025, the Bharatiya Janata Party had won 48 of the 70 seats, and defeated the Aam Aadmi Party. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party had won 22 seats.“The uncollectable rate [names deleted] is high everywhere and markedly uneven, ranging from a sixth to nearly a half of an Assembly [constituency]’s pre-revision electors,” the institute said. “It is systematically higher where the 2025 contest was closer...”However, the institute said that a “high uncollectable rate in a marginal seat is consistent with genuine population churn in the kinds of dense, tenanted, migration-heavy neighbourhoods that also tend to produce close contests” and that no causal claim can be made based on the data.Delhi is among the 19 states and Union Territories where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR.In 2025, the first phase of the exercise was conducted in Bihar. It was extended to 12 states and Union Territories in the second phase in late 2025 and the first half of 2026.Since the exercise began, concerns have been raised that the revision could eliminate genuine voters from the rolls and even shape electoral outcomes, as Scroll has reported.During the third phase, more than six crore names have been deleted from draft lists.In May, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the revision, but said that the exercise does not mean that the Election Commission can decide on whether the person is an Indian citizen.Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.Also read: Hyderabad: SIR deletions equal 89% of 2023 Assembly election turnout, shows studyScroll’s SIR experience is a microcosm of what urban India is facing