Delhi Assembly Elections: 1.46 crore voters will vote on February 8 for Delhi CM
Jan 6, 2020, 16:03 IST
- As many as 1.46 crore voters will participate in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Election to be held on February 8, 2020.
- The elections will take place in single phase and the counting will be done on February 11, 2020.
- The three main parties contesting elections constitute the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC).
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As many as 1.46 crore voters will participate in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Election to be held on February 8, 2020. The elections will take place in single phase and the counting will be done on February 11, 2020. As the 70 member assembly term approaches its end on February 22, the Election Commission of India announced the schedule for Delhi elections. The assembly polls will commence on February 8 , 2020.
The three main parties contesting elections constitute the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress (INC).
In 2015 assembly elections, Arvind Kejriwal was elected as the Chief Minister of the state. He is now eyeing a re-election in the upcoming assembly polls. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the 2015 election — winning 67 of the 70 assembly seats while the three seats went to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
This is the first time that the national capital is going to polls after the Lok Sabha elections. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP bagged all seven seats in Delhi.
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