Bettering the 2009 turnout, Delhi today
recorded an impressive 64 per cent polling in the battle for seven Lok
Sabha seats where BJP appeared to be riding a 'Modi wave' against
challenge from fledgling AAP and a struggling Congress. Delhi Election
Commission officials said 64 per cent of 1.27 crore eligible voters
exercised their franchise till 6 PM, a 12 per cent increase over the
previous elections.
The polling percentage may go up slightly as people were still in queue in various areas even after the deadline for voting ended. The prominent contenders in the fray include Union Ministers Kapil Sibal, BJP's Harsh Vardhan and AAP's Ashutosh in Chandni Chowk, former Congress minister Ajay Maken and BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi in New Delhi, union minister Krishna Tirath in North West Delhi, Sandeep Dikshit of Congress and AAP's Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, in East Delhi.
While the BJP emerged as the single largest party with 31 seats in the 70-member Delhi assembly in December last year, the AAP put up a sterling show by getting 28 seats, relegating Congress to a poor third with just eight seats. In 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the overall voting percentage was recorded at 52.3 per cent, which had increased to 66 per cent in the 2013 Delhi assembly election in December last year. The highest voter turnout of 71.3 in Delhi was recorded in the Lok Sabha poll held after the Emergency was lifted in 1977.
The polling percentage may go up slightly as people were still in queue in various areas even after the deadline for voting ended. The prominent contenders in the fray include Union Ministers Kapil Sibal, BJP's Harsh Vardhan and AAP's Ashutosh in Chandni Chowk, former Congress minister Ajay Maken and BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi in New Delhi, union minister Krishna Tirath in North West Delhi, Sandeep Dikshit of Congress and AAP's Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, in East Delhi.
While the BJP emerged as the single largest party with 31 seats in the 70-member Delhi assembly in December last year, the AAP put up a sterling show by getting 28 seats, relegating Congress to a poor third with just eight seats. In 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the overall voting percentage was recorded at 52.3 per cent, which had increased to 66 per cent in the 2013 Delhi assembly election in December last year. The highest voter turnout of 71.3 in Delhi was recorded in the Lok Sabha poll held after the Emergency was lifted in 1977.
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