Hyderabad: An estimated 7.77 lakh of the 19.41 lakh electors left off Hyderabad’s draft electoral roll carry Muslim names, in response to an evaluation by Siasat.com of the Election Fee’s (EC) personal printed lists. That’s roughly 40 out of each 100 names dropped.
The evaluation was ready from the 4,094 polling-area PDFs the EC launched alongside its Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) draft roll of August 17. The 7.77 lakh is the central estimate. The true determine may run as little as 7.25 lakh or as excessive as 8.29 lakh, or between 37.4 and 42.7 per cent.
The EC has positioned the 19,41,444 electors in 4 classes of Absent, Shifted, Useless and Duplicate (ASDD). Those that are on the checklist won’t obtain notices, in contrast to unmapped electors or these flagged for anomalies.
Nevertheless, these on the ASDD checklist can fill out Kind 6 to get again on the electoral roll if they’re in India. These residing overseas can fill out Kind 6A. They will achieve this throughout the claims and objections window that’s open till September 16. The ultimate roll is due on October 19.
2 in 5 names off the roll
Hyderabad went into the revision with 47,36,669 electors. The draft roll carries 27,95,225. The distinction is nineteen,41,444, or 41 per cent of the roll the district began with.
That’s the highest depend of any district in Telangana. Rangareddy follows with 12,87,091 and Medchal-Malkajgiri with 10,71,566. Between them, the three districts of the Hyderabad city belt account for 43 lakh of the 73.38 lakh names left off throughout the State, or almost three in 5.
For perspective, Telangana had 3,26,02,793 electors when it voted within the 2023 Meeting election, and 2,32,59,256 of them turned out. The 73.38 lakh flagged statewide quantities to about 22 per cent of that 2023 voters. In Hyderabad, the exclusions run at virtually double that fee.
Hyderabad’s roll had been rising till now. The Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) remaining roll of January 6, 2025, put Hyderabad at over 46.24 lakh, forward of each different district within the state. By the point the revision started in June, the District Election Officer (DEO) was working with 47,36,669. By August 17, the draft roll confirmed 27.95 lakh.
Why the names got here off
Within the EC’s definitions, “absent” means the voter couldn’t be discovered on the registered tackle, “shifted” means the voter seems to have moved away completely, “useless” means the voter was reported or recognized as deceased and “duplicate” means the elector seems to be enrolled in a couple of place.
A purpose is recorded towards each one of many 19.41 lakh entries. Shifted accounts for 13,45,333, or 69 out of each 100. Absent accounts for 3,40,455, useless for 1,56,392 and duplicate for 99,264.
60 laptop of the ‘duplicate’ exclusions carry Muslim names
The estimated Muslim-name share just isn’t the identical in every column. It’s highest within the duplicate class, the place an estimated 60 out of each 100 carry Muslim names, towards 40 throughout all 4 causes, Siasat.com’s evaluation exhibits. Duplicate is the smallest of the classes.
Absent comes subsequent at an estimated 45 out of each 100 and useless at 44.
Among the many 13.45 lakh flagged as shifted, the biggest group, with an estimated 37 out of each 100 carrying Muslim names. That’s under the district common of 40.
The place the Muslim-name deletions are concentrated
Three meeting constituencies account for the majority of Hyderabad’s Muslim-named deletions, Siasat.com’s evaluation exhibits. Chandrayangutta has the biggest quantity, an estimated 1.08 lakh of its 1,48,869 flagged electors. Bahadurpura follows with 1.05 lakh of 1,21,350 and Yakutpura with 89,000 of 1,54,982. Nampally, 81,000, and Karwan, at 77,000, are shut behind.
The smallest counts are within the north of town. Secunderabad Cantonment has an estimated 11,000 Muslim-name electors on its draft checklist for deletion, Sanathnagar at 15,000 and Secunderabad 16,000.
By share reasonably than depend, the order shifts on the high. Bahadurpura leads with an estimated 86 out of each 100 voters carrying Muslim names within the draft checklist, forward of Chandrayangutta’s 72 and Charminar’s 63. The underside of the desk are nonetheless Secunderabad Cantonment at 11, Sanathnagar at 13 and Secunderabad at 16.
The unfold from 86 to 11 is essentially a map of the place Muslims reside in Hyderabad. A listing drawn from Bahadurpura will learn in a different way from one drawn from Secunderabad Cantonment, which is why these figures describe the composition of the excluded lists and never the speed at which anybody was excluded.
Highest ‘duplicate’ deletions in Bahadurpura, Chandrayangutta
In all 15 meeting constituencies of Hyderabad, with out exception, duplicate carries the best estimated Muslim-name share of the 4 classes, Siasat.com’s evaluation exhibits. It runs from 92 out of each 100 in Bahadurpura, 85 in Chandrayangutta and 84 in Yakutpura, down to twenty in Secunderabad Cantonment. In Musheerabad, the place the general share is 17, duplicate stands at 38 towards 15 for shifted.
Yakutpura has the biggest variety of Muslim-name electors flagged as duplicate, an estimated 10,000, adopted by Bahadurpura at 8,000 and Nampally at 7,000.
Shifted runs the opposite method. In 10 of the 15 seats, it carries the bottom Muslim-name share of the 4 classes, regardless that it’s by far the biggest, overlaying greater than two-thirds of all exclusions within the district.
Bahadurpura data the best Muslim-name share in all 4 classes – 88 out of each 100 deletions for shifted, 83 for absent and 82 for useless, alongside its 92 for duplicate. Secunderabad Cantonment data the bottom in all 4, at 8, 12 and 20. Chandrayangutta and Bahadurpura are stage relating to absent deletions at an estimated 25,000 every, with Charminar behind at 23,000. Yakutpura has probably the most flagged as useless, an estimated 10,000 of its 14,566 demise entries.
The most important lists and the smallest
Jubilee Hills tops the district for sheer measurement, with 1,79,510 electors left off, adopted by Yakutpura and Chandrayangutta. On the different finish, Charminar has the fewest at 94,174, with Secunderabad on 1,02,710 and Secunderabad Cantonment on 1,05,034, Siasat.com’s evaluation exhibits.
Uncooked counts partly simply measure how huge a seat is. Set towards every constituency’s personal pre-revision roll, its draft-roll whole plus the names flagged, the order modifications. Musheerabad shed the biggest proportion at about 45 in each 100 voters within the draft checklist, adopted carefully by Sanathnagar, Malakpet and Jubilee Hills. The smallest was Bahadurpura at about 35, then Karwan at 37. No Hyderabad seat fell under a 3rd.
The 4 causes aren’t unfold evenly throughout town both. Jubilee Hills alone accounts for 1,48,859 shifted entries, the biggest determine in any class in any Hyderabad meeting seat, and 83 out of each 100 of that constituency’s exclusions. Charminar has the fewest at 42,238 and the bottom share at 45.
On the opposite finish, Chandrayangutta data probably the most absent deletions with 37,800, forward of Charminar’s 36,086 and Karwan’s 35,498. However as a share of every seat’s personal checklist, Charminar is the outlier, with 38 out of each 100 of its exclusions are recorded as absent, greater than twice of Hyderabad’s determine of 17 and almost six occasions Malakpet’s 6.5, the bottom within the district. Malakpet additionally has the smallest absent depend at 9,646.
Useless is highest in Yakutpura at 14,566, then Goshamahal at 13,237 and Musheerabad at 12,901, with Sanathnagar by far the fewest at 4,172. Duplicate is led by Yakutpura with 11,860, Bahadurpura with 9,261 and Nampally with 9,039, towards Secunderabad’s 3,002, Siasat.com’s evaluation exhibits.
The total Telangana image
The draft checklist for deletion has inhabitants throughout the state is younger and of working age. The biggest single age band is 35 to 39, with 11,37,375 names deleted. Electors of their 30s account for 20.86 lakh of the 73.38 lakh, greater than 1 / 4 of the entire. The imply age is 44.6. Males account for 37,01,808 and ladies 36,35,125, a near-even cut up.
Statewide, 27,864 electors recorded as useless are beneath 30, of whom 10,147 are beneath 25. One other 88,253 voters within the deleted draft checklist are aged 18 or 19, which means they’ll solely have joined the roll within the final 12 months or two. Of these, 14,012 are marked absent.
How Telangana compares to different states’ SIR
Telangana’s statewide fee of about 22 per cent is nicely above what Bihar produced when the EC ran the primary SIR in 2025. Bihar entered that train with 7.89 crore electors and printed a draft roll of seven.24 crore, dropping roughly 65 lakh names, a little bit over 8 per cent. Its remaining roll on September 30 carried 7.42 crore, a web fall of 5.95 per cent.
The second section, overlaying 9 states and three Union Territories (UT), eliminated 6.56 crore names from a mixed base of fifty.96 crore, near 13 per cent. Uttar Pradesh accounted for two.89 crore of these, 18.7 per cent of its roll. West Bengal dropped 58.21 lakh of seven.66 crore, and Rajasthan 41.84 lakh of 5.46 crore.
Within the third section, of which Telangana is a component, the charges are typically greater. EC figures present Delhi’s draft roll slicing 47.7 lakh names, near a 3rd of the UT’s voters. Karnataka stands at about 27 per cent, Maharashtra at 21.14, Haryana at 16 and Andhra Pradesh at 10.78.
Hyderabad, at 41 per cent, exceeds all of them.
Methodology and disclaimer
Electoral rolls don’t document faith, and Indian regulation forbids it. It breaks every elector’s identify, and the identify of the listed relative, into items and learns from Hyderabad’s rolls how strongly every bit factors in the direction of a Muslim identify or away from one. It returns a likelihood, not a label. We by no means document a faith towards any particular person: possibilities are averaged throughout teams of electors, and each determine we publish is an mixture. Any group with fewer than 50 flagged electors is suppressed.
We examined the mannequin towards individuals. We relabelled a blind pattern of 1,500 Hyderabad names (537 learn as Muslim, 921 as not), and audited the two,500 identify items behind 98.6 per cent of the mannequin’s Muslim calls: none was flawed, and 11 ambiguous items have been switched off.
Each determine carries an interval. For Hyderabad, whose roll is printed in English, the interval is widened to cowl the mannequin’s measured error and the variation between polling elements.
There’s a +/-2.7 per cent margin of error, which is why each determine on this collection is printed as an estimate with a variety round it and why the district determine is written as 40 per cent inside a band of 37.4 to 42.7.
(It is a multi-part collection on the evaluation of the Telangana and Hyderabad SIR. Keep tuned as we publish extra within the coming days)
