AbstractWe consider a random subgraph G n(p) of a finite graph family G n = (V n, E n) formed by retaining each edge of G n independently with probability p. We show that if G n is an expander graph with vertices of bounded degree, then for any c n ∈ (0, 1) satisfying $$c_n \gg {1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 {\sqrt {\ln n} }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\sqrt {\ln n} }}$$ and $$\mathop {\lim \sup }\limits_{n \to \infty } c_n < 1$$, the property that the random subgraph contains a giant component of order c n|V n| has a sharp threshold.