The counting of votes for the Delhi Assembly elections commenced on Saturday after the electorate in the national capital territory (NCT) exercised their vote on February 5.
Election officials will count roughly 94.51 lakh votes that were cast in the single-phase election, which witnessed a three-cornered contest between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the challengers—Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.
Voting concluded for the high-stakes Delhi Assembly elections on Wednesday, with 60.54 per cent of voters casting their ballot, sealing the fate of 699 candidates.
Across the 70 constituencies—spread over 58 general and 12 reserved—around 94.51 lakh voters exercised their ballot through 13,766 polling stations. About 50.42 lakh voters were men, while 44.08 lakh were women.
Delhi’s total voter count is around 1.56 crore.
In terms of districts, North East recorded the highest voter turnout at 66.25 per cent, while the South East district recorded the lowest at 56.40 per cent.
Constituency-wise, Mustafabad witnessed the highest voter turnout at 69.01 per cent, while Mehrauli clocked the lowest at 53.02 per cent.
Important candidates in the 2025 Assembly elections include AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who is fighting from New Delhi constituency against former BJP MP Parvesh Verma, and Congress’s Sandeep Dikshit, who is the son of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi is contesting against BJP’s Delhi unit chief Ramesh Bidhuri and Congress’s Alka Lamba. Another tight contest is in Jangpura, where AAP’s Manish Sisodia has been fielded against BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah and Congress’s Farhad Suri.
In the 70-member Delhi Assembly, the majority mark is 36. The AAP currently has 62 MLAs, the BJP eight, and the Congress none.
In the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections, the voting percentage stood at 67.12 per cent, while the percentage fell to 62.55 per cent in the 2020 elections.
While the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is seeking a third straight term, banking on its governance record and welfare schemes, the BJP and Congress are looking for a change.
Majority of the exit polls have predicted a victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a development that could see the Saffron party returning to power in the national capital territory (NCT) after almost three decades.
However, exit poll predictions have not been accurate, particularly during both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana in 2024. Some prominent agencies did not release their exit poll predictions.
