As the field enumeration exercise of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls concluded in Haryana on Friday, over 9.7 lakh people across Gurgaon and Faridabad are set to be excluded from the upcoming draft voter rolls.
Out of Haryana’s 2.06 crore registered electors across 22 districts, BLOs digitised enumeration forms for over 1.72 crore — achieving a statewide completion rate of 83.61 per cent. The state’s total pool of 33.8 lakh unmapped electors remained heavily concentrated in Gurgaon and Faridabad.
Official data showed that at 70.73 per cent, Gurgaon has the lowest digitisation rate. Out of 15.5 lakh registered voters in Gurgaon, while 10.9 lakh forms were digitised, 4.55 lakh were categorised as “uncollectable”.
Gurgaon was followed by Faridabad with a digitisation rate of 72.57 per cent. Out of 18.8 lakh voters in the district, booth level officers (BLOs) digitised 13.7 lakh enumeration forms, while 5.1 lakh were marked as “uncollectable”.
The exclusion of 9,73,589 electors constitutes over 28 per cent of a combined voter base in the two districts.
According to official data, forms could not be digitised as people had shifted permanently, due to their long-term absence, death or duplicate entries.
Notably, Gurgaon Assembly Constituency (AC) emerged as the worst-performing seat in the state in terms of voter verification, with 40 per cent of its total electorate of 4,50,200 electors marked “uncollectable”. Badshahpur, the state’s largest constituency in terms of voter strength with 5,41,895 electors, followed closely with 1,76,590 unmapped voters (32.59 per cent). Sohna and Pataudi recorded 19.14 per cent and 15.56 per cent, respectively.
In urban Gurgaon, 96,838 electors were found to have permanently shifted, 50,909 were marked absent during door-to-door verification, and 17,561 have died. Badshahpur recorded 51,969 absent voters while 79,498 had shifted permanently.
Gurgaon district election officials stressed that BLOs and electoral registration officers had attempted to enumerate voters multiple times.
A BLO, covering a 12-km-odd radius in Sushant Lok involving both villas and highrises, told The Indian Express that the reasons were manifold. “I had to cover close to 1,500 voters. I managed to get 800-odd (forms) enumerated, and the rest were marked ‘uncollectible’ as people did not open doors, had shifted, etc. My supervisors and I tried contacting such voters multiple times, but were unsuccessful. Many did not let us in, saying they were ‘not interested’ in SIR. We also found tenants living in the property who said their landlord (and family) have moved elsewhere. Many did not know which list had their names in 2002. There were also people who said they were from Delhi and not aware if their names were on rolls here,” Mainpal, a teacher, said.
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Election administration officials noted that, with the door-to-door enumeration exercise now over, the process transitions to final database reconciliation and the preparation of the draft electoral roll.
Abhimanyu Hazarika is a Senior Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Gurgaon. He covers southern Haryana.
Education
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Print Media, Asian College of Journalism (Class of 2020)
- B.A. (Hons) Liberal Arts with a major in Political Science, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (Class of 2019)
Professional Experience
Before joining The Indian Express, he worked with Bar & Bench (legal journalism) and Frontline magazine, where he developed experience in court reporting, legal analysis, and long-form investigative features.
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His work centres on civic accountability, environmental policy, urban infrastructure and culture, crime and law enforcement, and their intersections with politics and governance in and around Gurgaon.
Recent Coverage (2025)
- Crime: Reported on the recovery of 350 kg of explosives and an AK-47 from a rented house in Faridabad, linked to the 2025 Red Fort car explosion case (November 11, 2025).
- Environmental policy: Covered protests outside a Haryana minister’s residence against a Supreme Court order that environmentalists argue could allow mining and real estate development on large parts of the Aravalli hills (December 21, 2025).
- Pollution control measures: Co-authored coverage of the Rekha Gupta government’s enforcement of vehicle restrictions at Delhi-NCR borders (December 21, 2025).
- Road safety and infrastructure: Examined response lapses in the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway hit-and-run case and ongoing investigations into high-speed road crimes in Gurugram.
- Animal welfare policy: Reported on concerns regarding the low budget allocated for stray dog sterilization by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (November 30, 2025).
- Urban culture: Featured the social media-driven popularity of a new Magnolia Bakery outlet in Gurugram (December 15, 2025).
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