Delhi polls: In a first, turnout of women voters higher than that of men

Of the full registered women voters successful the metropolis (72.37 lakh), 60.92% voted, arsenic compared to 60.21% of men.

The percent of women who came retired to ballot arsenic compared to their stock successful the electorate has been connected the emergence implicit the years, and successful the 2020 polls, it astir matched that of men.

Delhi has 70 Assembly constituencies. Only 25 of the 210 candidates fielded by the AAP, BJP and Congress were women. More than 46% of Delhi’s electorate comprises women.

As per information released by the Election Commission of India connected Friday, the percent turnout of women was higher than that of men successful 40 constituencies.

This includes respective constituencies successful South, Southeast, Central, Northwest and Southwest Delhi.

The biggest difference, of implicit 5 percent points, was seen successful Okhla, wherever 58.2% of the registered women voters turned up against 52.5% of antheral voters.

The women electors successful Badarpur, Tughlakabad, Kalkaji and Sangam Vihar constituencies, each held by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) astatine present, who came retired connected February 5, were proportionally higher than men by astatine slightest 3 percent points.

In 2 constituencies — Greater Kailash and Vishwas Nagar — the turnout of men and women was the same.

Delhi has had 3 women main ministers since the reinstatement of a Vidhan Sabha successful 1993 — BJP’s Sushma Swaraj (1998), Congress’ Sheila Dikshit (1998-2013) and AAP’s Atishi (September 2024 — till date).

The Aam Aadmi Party’s predetermination campaign, overmuch similar that successful the states of Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh, commenced with an announcement that non-tax-paying women would beryllium fixed Rs 2,100 per period if AAP came backmost to power. Free autobus rides for women, 1 of the party’s astir fashionable schemes, was portion of its canvass run arsenic well.

The BJP and Congress followed suit, each announcing that they would springiness women

Rs 2,500 per period if voted to power.