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Lucknow: Election data from Uttar Pradesh reveals a surprising and politically sensitive pattern: Ministers who won by the smallest margins in 2022 are associated with the highest number of voter deletions after the SIR process was completed on April 10, 2026.Constituencies like Baraut, Bilaspur, Sitapur, Shahjahanpur, Mainpuri and Meerut South are prominent among the current ministers who will win by a small margin in 2022. In Baraut, Minister of State Krishan Pal Malik won by a meager 315 votes, yet the voter turnout in his constituency was 157 times the margin of victory. Similarly, Baldev Singh Aulakh of Bilaspur, who won by 307 votes, had voters removed, more than 100 times his victory margin. Sitapur provided an equally glaring example – minister of state Rakesh Rathod Guru’s victory margin of just 1,253 votes, dwarfed by the 75 times larger deletion (95,032 deletions).

Even where ministers hold cabinet rank, the same pattern persists. In Shahjahanpur, cabinet minister Suresh Kumar Khanna won by a margin of 9,313, but the difference in votes after SIR was more than 11 times. Meerut South (7,942 margin) shows about 15 times more deletions, Mainpuri (6,766 margin) and Hastinapur (7,312 margin) show more than 6 to 7 times deletions.In contrast, ministers who won by large margins appear relatively untouched. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s margin of over 1 lakh votes is only 0.32 times his margin, while Mehrouni and Khair are also below 1 times.This trend becomes even more pronounced when we compare former ministers who lost in 2022. Constituencies like Dibiyapur, Etawah, Baheri and Sirathu show that high voter deletion already existed where margins were low or declining. The case of Dibiyapur is the most serious: former minister Lakhan Singh Rajput lost by just 473 votes, but voter deletion after SIR was almost 68 times the margin of defeat. In Etawah, the loss margin of 1,662 votes resulted in 24 times more deletions.When compared with the ministers who lost in 2022, including many former veterans, the trend becomes even more pronounced. Constituencies like Dibiyapur, Etawah, Baheri and Sirathu show that high voter deletion already existed where margins were low or declining.For example, Dibiyapur is the most serious case: former minister Lakhan Singh Rajput lost by only 473 votes, but voter deletion after SIR was almost 68 times the margin of defeat. In Etawah, the loss margin of 1,662 votes resulted in 24 times more deletions. Former Basic Education Minister Satish Chandra Dwivedi had lost Etwa in 2022.Notably, high-profile defeatists like Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya (Sirathu) have seen their defeat margin reduced by 7.23 times, while others like Suresh Rana and Sangeet Som have seen their defeat margin fall between 3 to 4 times.