Voting for the 70-member Assembly of the country’s capital Delhi will be held on February 5, while the counting of votes will be done three days later on February 8.
The Election Commission announced the election dates on Tuesday. The tenure of Delhi Assembly is ending on 23 February.
There are 70 assembly seats in Delhi, out of which 58 are for general category while 12 seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar told a press conference that there are a total of 1.55 crore registered voters in Delhi and out of these, 83.49 lakh are men and 71.74 lakh are women.
He said that the number of young voters (20 to 21 years) is 28.89 lakh while the number of youth eligible to vote for the first time is 2.08 lakh.
Kumar said that there will be a total of 13,033 polling stations at 2697 places in the capital and out of these, 210 will be model polling stations.
He said that in connection with the preparations for the Delhi Assembly elections, extensive discussions have been held with various law enforcement agencies, including security related aspects.
In the capital Delhi, there is a triangular contest between Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress. 36 MLAs are required for majority in Delhi Assembly.
Voting for the 2020 assembly elections was completed on 8 February while the counting of votes took place on 11 February. In this election, AAP had fielded candidates on all 70 seats, out of which 62 had won. Thus, AAP formed the government by winning with an overwhelming majority.
In this election, BJP fielded candidates on 67 seats and could get success on only eight seats. Accounts of other parties including Congress could not be opened.
Earlier, in the 2015 assembly elections also, AAP had won a huge majority. Under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal, the party won 67 out of 70 seats. BJP had to be satisfied with only three seats, while the accounts of Congress and other parties were not even opened.
In all the three Lok Sabha elections held since 2014, BJP has captured all the seven seats in Delhi.
