Today is a good day for the national capital Delhi. Today the results of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) are coming. Voting for this was held in the capital on 4 December. The counting of votes will start from 8 am today. For this, the Election Commission has set up a total of 42 counting centers. 68 election observers have already been deployed for counting of votes. A total of 1349 candidates were in the fray in 250 wards in the MCD elections this time.
The counting of votes is done by the Returning Officer in the presence of the candidates or their representatives. Apart from this, the Election Commission has also deployed 136 engineers of ECIL. It will be the job of these engineers that if there is any technical problem in EVM during counting, then they can remove it.
Special arrangements for media persons
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Along with this, the Election Commission has also made special arrangements for authorized media persons. Media passes have been issued by the Election Commission for the day of counting. Apart from this, a special media room has been created for the convenience of watching live results. A media center has also been set up for the media at SEC (HQ), Nigam Bhawan, Kashmere Gate.
Voting percentage was close to 50 percent
According to the Election Commission data, a total of 50.47 percent polling was recorded in 250 wards, which was recorded about 3% less than in 2017. Earlier, in 2017, 53.39 in 2012 and 43.24 percent in 2007, there was 53.55 percent polling in Delhi’s civic elections.
Will be able to see the results online
The counting of these 42 counting centers can be seen on ‘secdelhi.in’. Security has been tightened outside these counting centers. Only registered people will get entry in these.
MCD is the largest municipal body
According to official data, there are more than 1.45 crore voters in Delhi, out of which only about half of the voters exercised their franchise in these elections. Significantly, there were 95,458 voters in this election who were eligible to vote for the first time. Let us tell you that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is one of the largest bodies in the country.
First election after new delimitation
Delimitation was done in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi recently, after which this is the first body election. In Delhi, the authorities set up 13,638 polling booths. A total of 56 thousand EVMs were used in this election.
AAP’s victory in exit polls
By the way, in the exit polls released regarding these elections, the victory of Aam Aadmi Party is clearly visible. The figures which have come out in the exit poll of Aaj Tak Axis My India are indicating that Kejriwal’s charisma has gone in the MCD elections. According to exit polls, out of 250 seats in MCD, Aam Aadmi Party can get 149-171 seats. Whereas, BJP seems to be getting a big blow. BJP is expected to get 69 to 91 seats. On the other hand, there are indications of Congress getting only 3 to 7 seats. Whereas, 5 to 9 seats can go in the account of others.