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One reason for high voting may also be that Voting Day was a day working on Wednesday, so that people could not club it with weekends and do not leave for a journey
For the first time during the Delhi Assembly elections, the voters show their fingers in Chhatpur, New Delhi on 5 February. (Image: PTI/Atul Yadav)
The initial few hours of slow voting went out to Delhi on Wednesday to vote in large numbers. If voting trends are to be believed, the national capital can break its all -time record, as 57.7 percent polling has already been recorded till 5 pm. It is almost certain that the 2020 polling percentage will break 62.5 percent, in which long queues were reported at polling booths.
Both BJP and AAP camps are quoting it as an advantage, in the past saying that it is anti-high against the present government. Party leaders said that the middle class – troubled by Arvind Kejriwal’s party, poor citizens hosting issues like infrastructure, cleanliness and air – came out to vote in large numbers for them.
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However, AAP said that high voting is for women who voted in large numbers, promising the party’s plan of Rs 2,100 per month, if it returns to power. Party leaders said that assembly seats along with quarrel groups have reported high voting, stating how their residents have voted for them in the last decade.
One reason for high voting may be that Voting Day was on Wednesday on the mid -working day of a week, so that people could not club it with weekends and leave for travel. This has been a deliberate measure to counter urban voter apathy by the Election Commission of India (ECI); This strategy was also implemented in Maharashtra, and the western state also reported as its highest polling percentage.
Earlier, the highest polling percentage recorded in Delhi was about 67 percent in the 2015 assembly elections, when AAP had a house in the 70 -member assembly with a record 67 seats. In the 2020 elections, the city recorded 62.5 percent polling, while it recorded 65.6 percent in 2013. The polling percentage in 2008 was 57.5 percent, 53.42 percent in 2003 and just 49 percent less in 1998, according to EC, according to EC, EC records.
Further records show that Delhi recorded 61.75 percent in 1993, 55.29 percent in 1983, 55.85 percent in 1977 and 58.52 percent in 1951.
