Delhi Election Schedule Announced By Election Commission Of India; Polling on Feb 5, Counting on Feb 8

The 70-member House will complete its term on February 23 and the Election Commission will hold elections to constitute a new House before that.

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00:00It's a single phase election. Date of notification will be 10th of January, Friday. Last date

00:11of making nomination will be 17th of January. Scrutiny on 18th of January, withdrawal 20th.

00:19These are the statutory periods of time which is given. Date of poll is 5th and counting

00:25is 8th and 5th again we have very deliberately kept Wednesday. Entire election process after

00:43counting will be complete by 10th. Delhi has 70 constituencies, 58 general and SC constituencies

00:51are 12. If I come to the voter profile, there are 1.55 crore voters as per the electoral

01:00rolls declared yesterday by the CO. 83.49 lakhs male and 71.74 lakhs female. Young voters

01:08are also 25.89 lakhs. First time voters are 2.08 lakhs. This is what we are trying everywhere

01:18to get new voters. If we look at the PWD voters, there are 830 Centenarian voters also.

01:26We have worked on transgender voters. We want them to please come and join us. There are

01:321.0985 plus voters. If I come to polling stations, there are 13,033 polling stations spread over

01:432697 polling locations. Average is only 1191.