Telangana’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls has cleared an indicative 2.43 crore electors for final publication, but 21.65 lakh notice cases remain to be fully accounted for before the final rolls are issued on November 9, according to the chief electoral officer’s latest report.
The report, updated on October 7, said 92.88 lakh notices had been issued over anomalies in voter records and failures to establish links with the 2002 electoral rolls. Of these cases, 71.23 lakh have been parked for final publication after scrutiny. Around 68.7 lakh were parked following hearings, while 2.5 lakh were parked without hearings.
The figures follow a sharp reduction from Telangana’s pre-revision electorate of 3,38,26,448. The draft rolls published on August 17 contained 2,64,87,213 names after 73,39,235 entries were excluded under the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate, or ASDD, categories.
Of the electors included in the draft rolls, around 1.72 crore had no anomaly or mapping flags. The remaining approximately 92.88 lakh cases were subject to further scrutiny. Combining the previously reported unflagged electorate with the latest cases parked for final publication produces an indicative figure of 2.43 crore, although the report said the numbers require final reconciliation before publication.
The notice and disposal process is continuing despite the closure of the claims and objections window on October 7. Hearings will continue until November 5, after which the final electoral rolls are scheduled to be published on November 9.
The October 7 report recorded 91.93 lakh notices delivered and 79.24 lakh hearings held. A further 13.29 lakh hearing dates had lapsed, while 18,154 rescheduled hearing dates also lapsed. Election authorities recorded 10,872 cases as ineligible for final publication.
Hyderabad and its surrounding urban districts account for a substantial share of the lapsed hearings. Rangareddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Hyderabad together recorded 6.96 lakh lapsed hearing dates, more than half the statewide total. At the constituency level, Serilingampally recorded the highest number at 81,033, followed by LB Nagar with 73,834, Medchal with 73,260 and Quthbullapur with 70,532.
Separately, around 4.50 lakh Form 6 applications for enrolment were awaiting scrutiny. The report said that if all remaining notice cases are cleared and these applications are accepted, the electorate could approach 2.69 crore—nearly 69 lakh below the pre-SIR figure. That calculation is conditional, however, and is not an official projection. The final count will depend on decisions on pending cases, new additions and exclusions.
The figures also do not establish that every lapsed hearing has resulted in deletion. The final electoral roll will depend on the completion of the remaining hearings, scrutiny of applications and reconciliation of the cases before publication on November 9.
