Delhi Assembly Polls LIVE: Polling Ends For 70 Vidhan Sabha Seats, 57.06 Per Cent Voter Turnout Till 6 PM In National Capital

The voting in the Delhi assembly elections ended on Saturday. Ealier today, people queued up outside polling booths to cast their ballot. Poll officials said earlier that 30.18 per cent votes were cast till 3 pm, according to ANI. Over 1.47 crore voters were eligible to exercise their franchise to elect a new government, with 672 candidates in the fray. Polling began at 8 am and ended at 6 pm. There are 13,750 polling booths, besides one auxiliary booth, located at 2,689 locations across Delhi.

President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife were among the early voters. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is eyeing to repeat his party's 2015 assembly performance, voted at the Rajpura Transport Authority polling station in the Civil Lines area with his family. Kejriwal, who is contesting the polls from the New Delhi seat, was accompanied by his wife Sunita and son Pulkit. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma and Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari have also voted.

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Delhi Police and election machinery are on 'extra vigil' and assessing the situation all the time across the national capital. Security personnel kept guard at strong rooms storing EVMs. Election staff carried EVMs and other polling material to booths under tight supervision in all constituencies.

"The 2020 Delhi polls will be tech-driven with greater use of technology elements like mobile apps, QR codes, social media interface, seeking to enhance the experience of all categories of voters, before polling or on the voting day. And we are trying to make the best use of it," Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said.

Electors can carry smartphones at polling stations in 11 assembly constituencies for accessing QR codes from the voters' helpline app in case they have not brought the voters' slip to the booth.

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The ruling Aam Aadmi Party is going into the Delhi election with the hope to repeat its stellar performance of the last assembly polls, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which bagged all seven seats here in the Lok Sabha election in May 2019, will be aiming at expanding its vote share in the national capital. The Congress is seeking to better its performance than last time when it did not bag any seat in the Assembly polls but improved its vote share in 2019 polls.

The BJP mounted its one of the most aggressive campaigns in the Delhi Assembly polls so far, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah leading the saffron charge fuelled by its planks of Hindutva and nationalism and its strident opposition to anti-CAA protest in Shaheen Bagh. On the other hand, the AAP tried to hard sell its development agenda, while the Congress sought to showcase its achievements during its 15-year rule under Sheila Dikshit from 1998 to 2013.