Loksabha Elections 2019: 60.21% voter turnout in Delhi

Loksabha Elections 2019: 60.21% voter turnout in Delhi

The National Capital Territory of Delhi logged 60.21 per cent voting in phase 6 of Lok Sabha elections 2019.

The highest polling was registered in North East Delhi at 63.45 per cent, followed by Chandni Chowk with 62.69% and East Delhi with 61.95%.

The turnout in other constituencies was West Delhi 60.64 per cent, New Delhi 56.47 per cent, South Delhi 57.3 per cent and North West Delhi 58.99 per cent.

A turnout of 60.21 per cent was recorded in elections for Delhi's seven parliamentary constituencies on May 12,  2019, down from 65% in 2014. Instances of EVM glitches and missing voter names reported from various areas. Former cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi's name was also missing from the voters list.

No effect of Ramazan:

Despite the intense heat and Ramzan, when Muslims observe a total fast, coincided with the polling in Delhi but did not seem to deter voters in the city. However, as the day progressed, people came out to cast their votes and numbers started increasing in the evening.

Delhi’s Senior citizens were elated to exercise their franchise despite the intense heat. Delhi's oldest voter, 111-year old Bachan Singh cast his vote at a polling booth in West Delhi's Tilak Nagar.

Delih CM Arvind Kejriwal voted with his wife after urging voters to reject "hatred", Rahul Gandhi, after casting his ballot in the New Delhi constituency. While, President Ram Nath Kovind, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Union Minister Sheila Dikshit, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, his sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi were among the other prominent figures who voted in the sixth and penultimate round of the Lok Sabha elections 2019.