GUWAHATI, Jan 6: The Delhi Assembly elections will be held in a single phase on Feb 8 and results will be declared on Feb 11, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora announced today.
A total of 1.46 crore voters can exercise their franchise in the upcoming elections, according to the final electoral list for Delhi published today.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Delhi Ranbir Singh said the final publication of voters list shows there are total 1, 46, 92,136 voters in Delhi including 80.55 lakh males and 66.35 lakh females.
The term of the 70-member Delhi Assembly ends on Feb 22 and a new House has to be constituted before that.
Led by Arvind Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stormed to power in Delhi in the last hustings sweeping 67 of the 70 Assembly seats.
The BJP grabbed the remaining 3 seats while the Congress failed to win a single seat.
This will be the first election in Delhi since the BJP swept the Lok Sabha polls early last year. The BJP swept all 7 parliamentary seats in Delhi.
