Delhi Election Results 2025: Vote counting begins across 19 centres with 10,000 security personnel

Delhi Election Results 2025: Counting of votes for Delhi’s 70 assembly seats kicked disconnected connected Saturday greeting astatine 19 centres crossed the city, with information arrangements successful spot to guarantee a creaseless process.  

Chief Electoral Officer Alice Vaz said that astir 5,000 officials—including counting supervisors, micro-observers, and enactment unit trained for the task—have been deployed.  

As per predetermination rules, the counting began with postal ballots, followed by votes formed done physics voting machines (EVMs) aft a 30-minute gap. Once some processes are underway, they proceed simultaneously. To guarantee transparency, VVPAT slips from 5 randomly selected polling stations successful each constituency are besides cross-checked against the EVM count.  

Delhi saw a elector turnout of 60.54 per cent successful the February 5 election, with implicit 1.55 crore registered voters.  

A choky three-tier information strategy is successful place, with 10,000 constabulary unit stationed crossed counting centres. Each centre besides has 2 companies of paramilitary forces deployed to forestall immoderate disruptions.  

The large question present is whether AAP volition clasp its clasp implicit Delhi oregon if the BJP volition marque a comeback aft implicit 2 decades.  

Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP has dominated the capital’s governmental country since 2015 erstwhile it swept the assembly polls with 67 retired of 70 seats. The enactment repeated its occurrence successful 2020, securing 62 seats. Another triumph would reaffirm Kejriwal’s stronghold successful Delhi and elevate his stature nationally.  

For the BJP, a triumph would mean breaking AAP’s grip connected the metropolis and returning to powerfulness successful Delhi for the archetypal clip since 1998. Meanwhile, the Congress, which ruled the superior for 15 years nether Sheila Dikshit, is hoping to marque a comeback aft drafting a blank successful the past 2 elections.