Delhi voted in a single-phase on Saturday to elect a new government for the state assembly. Delhi election voting began at 8 am across all 70 constituencies. The television channels aired exit polls after the voting ended, which predicted a clear victory for the Aam Aadmi Party with a comfortable margin over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress. The Election Commission had announced the Delhi Assembly Election date on January 6, following which the model code of conduct was put in place. Over 1.46 crore people are eligible to vote in the 2020 Delhi polls. The current term of the Delhi Assembly ends on February 22. There are a total of 1,46,92,136 voters -- 80,55,686 men, 66,35,635 women and 815 belonging to the third gender -- in the final voters' list of Delhi Election. To see the full list of candidates from all parties contesting the 2020 Delhi Assembly election, please click here. Whether or not you are from Delhi, you can leave your comment and see what others have to say in this interactive map.
Here are the Highlights on voting day of the Delhi Assembly election 2020:
The three minority-dominated seats of Mustafabad, Matia Mahal and Seelampur recorded the highest voter turnout in the Assembly elections here on Saturday, polls officials said.
According to the data shared by the officials, Mustafabad in northeast Delhi recorded 66.29 per cent voter turnout till 5 pm.
Matia Mahal in old Delhi, the area that saw anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests, recorded a voter turnout of 65.62 per cent.
Seelampur, another minority seat in northeast Delhi, recorded 64.92 per cent voting. The seat had also seen anti-CAA protests in December.
Till 5 pm, the national capital recorded a voter turnout of 57.87 per cent.
3 minority-dominated seats witness highest voter turnout in Delhi.
Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is set for a hat-trick in Delhi with around 52 seats, predicted NDTV's poll of exit polls on Saturday after voting in the capital. An aggregate of seven exit polls also said the BJP will win 17 of Delhi's 70 seats and the Congress, just one. Health warning - exit polls often get it wrong.
57.06% (provisional figure) voting has taken place in Delhi. The voting is still on at many places as the people who entered the queue before 6 pm.
Voting has concluded in Delhi for 70 Assembly seats. The final voter turnout will be released soon by the Election Commission of India.
Senior CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat after casting his vote at Sanchar Bhawan. #DelhiElections2020 pic.twitter.com/5s1VERfUoc
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#Update | 41.5% voter turnout recorded till 3 pm.
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#DelhiElections2020 | 30.2% voter turnout recorded till 3 pm.
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Delhi Election 2020: Smriti Irani Targets Arvind Kejriwal Over Election Day Tweet To WomenDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday hit back at Union Minister Smriti Irani, who accused him of misogyny over a tweet in which he urged women to come out in large numbers for the assembly election and discuss with men who should get the vote."
As of 2 pm, the voter turnout was recorded at 27.9 per cent, a huge 14 per cent drop since 2015.
A low voter turnout could be a cause of worry for the Aam Aadmi Party, whose 2015 landslide victory was based significantly on a high voter turnout.
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#DelhiElections2020 | 27.9% voter turnout recorded till 2 pm.
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Pics: Politicians Cast Their Vote In Delhi Assembly Election 2020Delhi is voting for the 70-member assembly seats today. Over 1.47 crore people are eligible to cast their vote in the polls that will decide the fate of 672 candidates. Delhi is witnessing a triangular contest between AAP, BJP And Congress
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener, who is contesting for a third term from the New Delhi Assembly constituency, said he is hopeful that the people of Delhi will vote based on the work done by his government.
"Voted along with my family, including my first-time voter son. Urge all young voters to come out to vote. Your participation strengthens democracy," Mr Kejriwal tweeted, sharing photo of his family members after casting vote.
Mr Kejriwal's son, Pulkit, said he felt good about voting, news agency PTI reported. Asked if his father will be Chief Minister again, Pulkit said, cautiously, that "whoever people choose will become the chief minister of Delhi".
In the 2015 assembly polls, the AAP won 54.3 per cent of the vote share as it went on to win 67 seats, while the BJP got 32 per cent and the Congress managed just 9.6 per cent.
The turnout of women could be the make-or-break factor in deciding which party wins these elections. In the 2015 polls, in the top 20 constituencies with the highest turnout of women, AAP won much more decisively than in the constituencies which had the lowest turnout of women. In the seats with a high turnout of women voters, the AAP's margin of victory was 5 per cent higher than in the seats where women's turnout was low.
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#DelhiElections2020 | 20.2% voter turnout recorded till 1 pm.
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"Definitely go and vote. A special appeal to all women, just as you take up the responsibility of the home, the responsibility of the nation and Delhi is with you. All of you women must go to vote and take the men in your families along with you. Discuss with men who it is who it right to vote for," Mr Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi minutes before 8 am when the polling began.
It was the "discuss with men" advice that Ms Irani, the Minister of Women and Child Development, objected to. While supporters of Mr Kejriwal said that Chief Minister was appealing women to encourage men to vote for his party, the BJP leader alleged that the tweet had a misogynistic slant.
"Do you not consider women capable enough to decide for themselves who to vote for?" Ms Irani said in Hindi with a hashtag "#AntiWomenKejriwal".
Around 1.47 crore people in the national capital have the choice on Saturday to elect a new government in what appears to be a close contest between a Mr Kejriwal's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The election comes at a time when the country and Delhi have been rocked by weeks-long protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), perceived as discriminatory towards Muslims.
The BJP has sought to mobilise popular sentiment against the protests, at the heart of which is an indefinite sit-in led by women in South East Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, banking on its support base.
For the AAP, the outcome of the election hinges on the turnout of women. In the 2015 polls, in the top 20 constituencies in Delhi with the highest turnout of women, the AAP won much more decisively than in the seats which had the lowest turnout of women.
The surge had helped the AAP scoop up an astonishing 67 of 70 seats in 2015 while the BJP won just three. Since then, the AAP has conceded one seat to the BJP in a by-poll and lost six lawmakers who joined other parties.
Votes for the Delhi assembly election will be counted on Tuesday.
Delhi Election 2020: Smriti Irani Targets Arvind Kejriwal Over Election Day Tweet To Women
A fight between Congress and Aam Aadmi Party workers broke out outside a polling booth in north Delhi's Majnu Ka Tilla today after the Congress's Alka Lamba tried to slap an AAP worker.
In a mobile video, a man who reportedly belongs to the party led by Arvind Kejriwal is heard shouting at Ms Lamba, who suddenly lunges with her right hand raised high to slap him. The man moves back and Ms Lamba misses her target.
Within seconds, the man is escorted away by a ring of policemen. However, Congress workers chase and surround the policemen. Ms Lamba and some Congress workers are seen trying frantically to reach the man, who is still shielded by the policemen.
Ms Lamba, a former MLA of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP from Chandni Chowk, fell out from the party after disagreements with Mr Kejriwal on party matters accumulated to a point that they had to go separate ways.
She joined the Congress in October last year. Ms Lamba worked with the Congress for 20 years before she quit the party and joined the AAP. She won the Delhi election in 2015 from Chandni Chowk.
On September 19, Ms Lamba was disqualified from the Delhi assembly by Speaker Ram Niwas Goel for defection.
Over 1.47 crore voters face the choice of re-electing the AAP or replacing it with the BJP or the Congress. The polling marks the end of a bitter face-off that saw exceptionally coarse language and communally-charged attacks.
Tight security arrangements are in place across the national capital with extra vigil in south-east Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, where a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is going on, and other sensitive areas.
The Congress, which ruled Delhi for 15 years before being decimated by the AAP, has led a relatively lacklustre campaign. The party's top leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have barely campaigned for its candidates.
In the 2015 assembly polls, the AAP had won 54.3 per cent of the vote, while the BJP got 32 per cent and the Congress managed just 9.6 per cent. While the AAP won 67 seats in 2015, since then the party has conceded one seat to the BJP in a bypoll and six of its lawmakers have been disqualified over joining other parties.
The results of the Delhi election will be out on Tuesday.
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora cast his vote at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi assembly constituency.
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and his wife Neelu Chandra cast their vote in New Moti Bagh.
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#DelhiElections2020 | 15.6% voter turnout recorded till 12 pm.
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Senior BJP leader LK Advani and his daughter Pratibha voted at a polling booth in Delhi's Aurangzeb lane.
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#WATCH Delhi: Scuffle breaks out between AAP and Congress workers near Majnu ka Teela, Congress candidate Alka Lamba tries to slap an AAP worker. AAP leader Sanjay Singh has said the party will complain to Election Commission. #DelhiElections2020 (note: abusive language) pic.twitter.com/l5VriLUTkF
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#DelhiElections2020 | 6.3% voter turnout recorded till 11 am.
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Congress leader Rahul Gandhi voted at a polling booth in Delhi's Aurangzeb lane.
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Bollywood actor Tapsee Pannu casts her vote along with her family. #DelhiElections2020 #DelhiAssemblyElections
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi cast her vote at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi assembly constituency. She was accompanied by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.#DelhiElections2020 #DelhiAssemblyElections
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives at polling booth in Aurangzeb Road to cast his vote.
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Singh cast their votes at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi assembly constituency. (ANI) #DelhiElections2020 #DelhiAssemblyElections
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | President Ram Nath Kovind casts his vote. #DelhiElections2020 #DelhiAssemblyElections
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#ElectionWithNDTV | Delhi Police assists senior citizens cast their vote.
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⚡️#ElectionsWithNDTV | Aam Aadmi Party vs BJP as Delhi votes to elect a new government.
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#UPDATE Election officer Udham Singh who was deployed at a polling booth in Babarpur Primary School in Northeast Delhi died after suffering a heart attack. #DelhiElections2020 https://t.co/CEA7ywtQNd
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#DelhiElections2020 | 4.3% voter turnout recorded till 10 am.
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Delhi Police: An election officer deployed at a polling booth in Babarpur Primary School in Northeast Delhi has died. More details awaited. #DelhiElections2020
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#ElectionsWithNDTV | Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Patparganj Assembly constituency, Manish Sisodia and his wife Seema Sisodia cast their vote.
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Voted along with my family, including my first-time voter son. Urge all young voters to come out to vote. Your participation strengthens democracy. pic.twitter.com/QU8wUZ18hv
- Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 8, 2020
#ElectionsWithNDTV | Voting underway in Delhi, visuals from a polling booth in MCD primary school in Shakarpur. A bridegroom also cast his vote with his family.
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