More than 16% of the voters in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were removed from the draft lists published on Friday as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, The Times of India reported.

Nearly 45 lakh names were deleted in Andhra Pradesh’s draft roll and 33.8 lakh in Haryana after the enumeration phase in the two states concluded on July 24.

In Haryana, the names of 24.1 lakh voters, or 11.6% of the electorate, were removed from the draft list because they had either permanently shifted or were absent during the revision process.

More than 7.6 lakh names, or 3.7% of the electorate, were deleted as they had been marked as deceased. More than two lakh names, or 0.9% of the electorate, were removed because of duplications.

In Andhra Pradesh, the names of 22.3 lakh voters, or 5.3% of the electorate, was removed from the draft list because they had either permanently shifted or were absent during the revision process.

More than 15.2 lakh names, or 3.6% of the electorate, were deleted as they had been marked as deceased. More than 7.3 lakh names, or 1.7% of the electorate, were removed because of duplications.

In both states, the claims and objections of voters against their removal from the draft list will be heard between July 31 and August 30 before the final electoral roll is published.

The deletions in Haryana are the third-highest after Arunachal Pradesh (19.09%) and Uttar Pradesh (18.7%), The Indian Express reported. While the exercise in Arunachal Pradesh was underway, it had been completed in Uttar Pradesh in April.

Haryana and Andhra Pradesh are part of the third phase of the special intensive revision exercise, which is taking place in 16 states and three Union Territories.

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 it began, concerns have been raised that the revision could eliminate genuine voters from the rolls and even shape electoral outcomes, as Scroll has reported.

Earlier in July, more than 22 lakh names were removed from the voter lists of four states Odisha, Manipur, Mizoram and Sikkim. The names accounted for 6.1% of the voters in the states’ earlier electoral rolls.

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.

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