Delhi Assembly Elections: As Capital votes, turnout drops to 57%, was over 62% in 2020

On Wednesday, the highest turnout was recorded successful North East district, which saw 63.83 per cent polling till 5 pm, portion South East territory recorded the lowest turnout astatine 53.77 per cent.

According to the EC’s district-wise information astatine 5 pm, the turnout was 55.24 per cent successful Central Delhi, 58.98 per cent successful East, 54.37 per cent successful New Delhi, 57.24 per cent successful North, 58.05 per cent successful North West, 61.35 per cent successful Shahdara, 55.72 per cent successful South, 58.86 per cent successful South West, and 57.42 per cent successful West.

Among constituencies, North East Delhi’s Mustafabad had the highest turnout astatine 66.68 per cent, followed by Seelampur astatine 66.41 per cent. Karol Bagh recorded the lowest turnout astatine 47.40 per cent.

While the Capital’s full electorate adds up to astir 1.56 crore, determination are astir 2.08 lakh first-time voters. A full of 699 candidates contested the elections, the results of which volition beryllium declared connected February 8. Polling took spot astatine 13,766 stations crossed the 70 constituencies successful the Capital.

In the 2020 Assembly elections, the AAP had won 62 of the 70 seats, with the remaining 8 seats going to the BJP.

The high-stakes Assembly elections successful the Capital saw a shrill campaign, with the AAP, BJP and Congress announcing a slew of canvass sops — including for women and the younker — successful their bid to outdo each other.

While the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer said polling was conducted successful a “peaceful” manner, the AAP alleged that voters were inconvenienced successful respective of its strongholds. It besides accused the BJP of distributing wealth successful galore areas, a complaint that the BJP denied.

In a statement, the Delhi CEO said: “DEOs and DCPs were made liable for detecting and responding to immoderate complaints oregon fake quality emerging connected societal media to nip the misinformation bloom successful the bud. The DEOs/DCPs done their authoritative societal media platforms gave timely responses to allegations and apprehensions raised connected societal media.”

“A zero-tolerance attack was adopted towards the usage of wealth powerfulness successful the elections. Enforcement agencies person made seizures worthy Rs 235.78 crore since the announcement of the Delhi elections connected January 7. The seizures see Rs 46.48 crore cash, Rs 5.39 crore worthy of liquor, Rs 88.36 crore worthy of drugs, Rs 88.56 crore worthy of precious metals, and freebies worthy Rs 6.98 crore from the 11 districts successful Delhi,” it added.

President Droupadi Murmu, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, AAP main Arvind Kejriwal, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Union Ministers S Jaishankar and Hardeep Singh Puri were among the aboriginal voters.