Delhi votes peacefully : exit polls predict second home-coming for AAP

Feb 7, New Delhi
Delhi registered a record voter turnout in the assembly polls which closed at 6 PM incident free Saturday as exit polls predict AAP’s second home coming with a seat share ranging from 31 to the highest 53 seats.
Counting of votes will take place on Tuesday.
According to preliminary data received from Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, 67 per cent voter turnout was recorded.

However, the final figure may go up as at some polling booths people are still in the queue.

In the last assembly polls, the overall voting percentage was 66 percent.

The polling had been smooth and incident free. A total of 673 candidates are in the fray for the 70-member member assembly.

Vice President Hamid Ansari, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi, Union Ministers Harsh Vardhan and Maneka Gandhi, Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and Congress leader Ajay Maken were among the early voters.

Meanwhile, a total of Rs. 40 lakh cash and over 53,000 litres of illicit liquor valued at Rs. 1.26 crore has been seized by Election Commission-appointed surveillance teams at the close of polls in Delhi.

Apart from these, the surveillance teams registered a total of 44 FIRs in connection with the circulation and distribution of illegal inducements to voters in Delhi.

As many as 60 paid news cases were also registered with the poll panel since the time Assembly polls were announced on January 12.

As per the latest data compiled by Election Expenditure Observers, over 90 teams, flying squads and static vigil squads have also seized narcotics worth Rs. 74 lakh and over 40 fire arms in the run-up to the70-seat Assembly polls in the state, where voting was held.