New Delhi: Voting for the 70-member Delhi assembly began at 8 am on Saturday, and will go on till 6 pm. Over 1.47 crore people are eligible to exercise their franchise in the polls that will decide the fate of 672 candidates.
There are 13,750 polling booths, besides one auxiliary booth, located at 2,689 locations across Delhi.
The Aam Aadmi Party is hoping to repeat its stellar performance of the last assembly polls when it won 67 of the 70 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which bagged all the seven seats in Delhi in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, is aiming to dislodge the AAP, while the Congress is seeking to better its performance than last time when it drew a blank in the assembly polls.
The AAP had got 54.3% votes in the 2015 polls, while the BJP secured 32% and the Congress bagged just 9.6%.
Counting of votes will take place on Tuesday.
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