Delhi Assembly elections: 19.95% voter turnout recorded till 11 am
Polling is also underway for the bye-election in the Milkipur Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh.
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A voter turnout of 19.95% was recorded till 11 am on Wednesday in the Delhi Assembly elections, according to Election Commission data.
While the North East district in the national capital recorded the highest turnout with 24.87% of voters casting their ballot, the Central Delhi district saw the lowest at 16.46%.
Voting in the national capital began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm. There are 699 candidates in the fray.
Polling is taking place in a single phase across 13,766 polling stations set up at 2,696 locations for over 1.5 crore eligible voters to cast their ballot. The votes will be counted on Saturday.
The Election Commission has deployed 220 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces, 35,626 personnel from the Delhi Police and 19,000 Home Guards to ensure peaceful polling, ANI reported.
Around 3,000 polling booths have also been identified as sensitive, where special security arrangements, including drone surveillance, have been arranged.
The national capital is witnessing a three-way contest between the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Among the prominent candidates in the fray are Aam Aam Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who will be contesting against the BJP’s Parvesh Verma and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit from the New Delhi Assembly constituency.
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