Hyderabad: Andhra-origin residents choosing to retain their votes in their home state, migrant workers opting for enrolment in their native districts, thousands of families moving to Kollur 2BHK houses, and deaths and duplicate registrations are among the factors behind Greater Hyderabad accounting for the state’s top 10 constituencies with the highest percentage of uncollectable enumeration forms under the special intensive revision (SIR).The latest SIR report shows Sanathnagar topping Telangana with 45.6%, around 1.1 lakh forms classified as uncollectable. It is followed by Musheerabad at 45.3% (1.3 lakh) and Jubilee Hills at 44.4% (1.8 lakh).LB Nagar is fourth at 43.4% with 2.6 lakh uncollectable forms, followed by Khairatabad at 40.8% (1.2 lakh), Maheswaram at 40.7% (2.3 lakh), Goshamahal at 40.4% (1 lakh), Amberpet at 40.2% (1.1 lakh), Uppal at 40% (2.1 lakh) and Rajendranagar at 38.9% (2.4 lakh).Nine of these constituencies have around four in every 10 electors’ forms classified as uncollectable, against the state average of 20.9%. Six of the top 10 seats are in Hyderabad district, three in Rangareddy and one in Medchal-Malkajgiri.Andhra-origin residents, migrant workers behind Jubilee Hills numbersJubilee Hills electoral registration officer (ERO) A Suresh told TOI that different pockets of the constituency have contributed to the high number for different reasons.“Madhuranagar, Vengal Rao Nagar and Moti Nagar have a huge Andhra settlers’ population. Their properties are mostly in Andhra Pradesh and many have decided to have their votes there. They did not give their enumeration forms here and have submitted them in the neighbouring state,” Suresh added.Borabanda, on the other hand, has a large migrant workforce from Sangareddy and other nearby districts. Many have chosen to retain their votes in their native districts, he said.Krishna Nagar Colony has a large number of film workers from Andhra, and many of them opted to retain their votes there, according to the ERO.Another factor is relocation under the 2BHK housing programme. Suresh said around 4,000 families from Borabanda had shifted or were shifting to Kollur, translating into roughly 15,000-16,000 voters moving out of the constituency.He said there were also about 50,000 anomalies involving minor changes that could be adjusted.Kollur relocation adds to Khairatabad shiftKhairatabad ERO N Shankar Nalupa Raju said relocation of families from slums to Kollur and voters choosing their native places for enrolment contributed to the constituency’s numbers.Around 3,500 families from slums in Banjara Hills moved to Kollur 2BHK houses. At roughly three electors per family, this accounted for around 10,000 voters, who opted to shift their enrolment, he said.Raju said there had also been considerable movement of Andhra settlers over the past 25 years. Those living in areas such as Film Nagar and Kamalapuri Colony had either returned to Andhra or chosen to retain their votes there.He said there were 18 slums near Apollo Hospitals and Ramanaidu Studios with residents mainly originating from Nalgonda, Devarakonda and Mahabubnagar areas. These pockets have around 10,000 migrant families, some of whom have returned to their native places while others decided to retain their votes there.Deaths and duplicates also contributed to Khairatabad’s tally. “There are around 7,000 deaths and 4,000 duplicates in the entire constituency,” Raju said.IT corridor, industrial workforce add to Rajendranagar countRajendranagar ERO S Srinivas Reddy said the pattern was different in the IT corridor and industrial areas. In Narsingi, Gandipet, Manikonda, Puppalaguda and Neknampur, residents include people from north India and Andhra.Many did not respond despite efforts to reach them, he said. In Gandipet and Kismatpur, voters originally from Chevella and Vikarabad areas decided to retain their votes in their native places.The industrial belt presented another problem. Reddy cited an instance in Kattedan where officials checked a factory against which about 40 voters were listed, but none was available. Many workers in the industrial areas are from Bihar, Odisha and Chhattisgarh and did not opt to retain their votes locally, he said.The response was also poor in some gated communities. Reddy said officials waited for days in parts of the IT corridor, but residents did not come forward to submit their enumeration forms.Rajasthan, Maharashtra links in GoshamahalGoshamahal ERO G Uma Prakash said Begum Bazar has a sizeable population originating from Rajasthan, Bihar and Odisha, and many did not want to retain their votes in Hyderabad.In some families, only one or two younger members had votes locally, while others had already been mapped in Rajasthan and did not come forward during the enumeration exercise, she said.The pattern varied within the constituency. Mangalhat recorded a better response, while in upper Dhoolpet, several Maharashtra settlers were already mapped to their native state and did not come forward for enrolment here, she said.There were also mapping issues in cases where electors could not be linked through their parents to the earlier rolls. Prakash, however, said such mapping problems were different from cases headed for straight deletion. She expects some electors to come forward during the claims and objections stage.The top-10 figures show that the high-uncollectable phenomenon is not confined to one type of neighbourhood. It stretches from core-city constituencies such as Khairatabad and Goshamahal to older residential areas such as Musheerabad and Amberpet and large peripheral constituencies such as LB Nagar, Maheswaram, Uppal and Rajendranagar.In absolute numbers, LB Nagar has the largest uncollectable tally among the top 10 at 2.64 lakh, followed by Rajendranagar at 2.48 lakh, Maheswaram at 2.34 lakh and Uppal at 2.19 lakh. Sanathnagar, despite having the highest percentage in Telangana, has 1.16 lakh uncollectable forms.GFXBased on the latest August 9, 2026 SIR report, the top 10 Telangana Assembly constituencies by uncollectable percentage are:Sanathnagar, Hyderabad — 45.66% — 1,15,988 uncollectable formsMusheerabad, Hyderabad — 45.30% — 1,36,057Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad — 44.47% — 1,80,864Lal Bahadur Nagar, Rangareddy — 43.41% — 2,64,019Khairatabad, Hyderabad — 40.89% — 1,20,089Maheswaram, Rangareddy — 40.72% — 2,33,999Goshamahal, Hyderabad — 40.42% — 1,09,496Amberpet, Hyderabad — 40.22% — 1,13,548Uppal, Medchal-Malkajgiri — 40.05% — 2,19,401Rajendranagar, Rangareddy — 38.97% — 2,47,542
