Delhi election 2020 results LIVE: Counting of votes begins, EVMs under 3-tier security

Results to the 70-seat Delhi assembly are expected as election officials count votes today. Exit polls predicted a large majority for the AAP government, but an improved tally for the BJP.

11 February, 2020 6:30 am IST
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New Delhi: The counting of votes to the 70-seat Delhi assembly election has begun.

Election officials will tally the votes that will decide which of the 672 candidates ⁠— 593 men and 79 women — will be part of the next assembly.

The majority mark is 36 seats.

Follow the live updates here:

08:37am: AAP leading in Laxmi Nagar constituency.

08:34am: BJP’s Tajinder Bagga leading in West Delhi’s Hari Nagar constituency.

08:32am: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal leading in New Delhi constituency. Other AAP leaders who are ahead in their constituencies are Raghav Chadha, Atishi.

08:29am: Visuals of counting center in Delhi’s Gole Market area.

08:27am: AAP’s Amanatullah Khan leading in Okhla.

08:20am: BJP’s Kapil Mishra leading in Model Town constituency, reports News18.

08:19am: 11 counting centers have been set up across the city for counting of votes. The centers are in CWG Sports Complex in east Delhi, NSIT Dwarka in west Delhi, Meerabai Institute of Technology and G B Pant Institute of Technology in southeast Delhi, Sir CV Raman ITI, Dheerpur in central Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana in north Delhi.

08:16am: Early numbers show Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP leading in 6 seats while BJP is leading in 3 seats.

08:10am: News18 predicts AAP leading in 3 seats while BJP is leading in 1 seat.

08:00am: Counting of votes begins.

07:55am: AAP supporters gather outside the party office ahead of counting of votes in Delhi assembly elections.

07:44am: BJP’s Manoj Tiwari says he is confident BJP will come to power in Delhi.

07:20am: A quick recap of what exit polls predicted:

India Today-Axis My India exit poll gave AAP 59-68 seats, and BJP 2-11 seats.
Times Now gave AAP 47 seats and BJP 23 seats.
ABP News-C Voter predicted AAP will get 49-63 seats and the BJP anywhere between 5-19.
Republic TV-Jan Ki Baat gave AAP 48-61 seats and BJP 9-21 seats.

07:10am: Each EVM consists of a ballot unit (BU), a controls units (CU) and a voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT). From every assembly constituency, five VVPATs will be randomly selected and counted.

07:02am: Security was stepped on Monday evening to ensure counting of votes go smoothly. The three-tier security includes an inner-most layer, near the strong rooms, made up of the paramilitary, followed by armed policemen and then police personnel forming the outermost layer.

Security personnel arrive at the Atal Adarsh Bengali Girls Senior Secondary School, one of the counting centres for the Delhi Assembly polls | PTI06:50am: Delhi election officials say there will be 33 counting observers.

06:45am: Delhi Traffic Police notify that traffic movement will remain blocked on Muni Maya Ram Marg near Guru Nanak Dev Institute of Technology (both carriageways) due to counting of votes.

06:44am: AAP candidates Amanatullah Khan and Praveen Kumar gathered at the Meerabai Institute of Technology in Maharanibagh, the designated ‘strong room’ where EVMs are being stored, earlier in the morning.

06:35am: Delhi election officials say there will be 33 counting observers.

06:30am: Counting centres are located across the 11 districts — CWG Sports Complex in East Delhi, NSIT Dwarka in West Delhi, Meerabai Institute of Technology and G B Pant Institute of Technology in Southeast Delhi, Sir CV Raman ITI, Dheerpur in Central Delhi, and Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana in North Delhi.

Exit polls have predicted a large majority for the incumbent AAP government, headed by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, which won 67 seats last election. The BJP, which currently holds only three seats, ran a campaign focussed on Shaheen Bagh with hopes to come back to power in the city-state after two decades.

The Congress, which held power for three consecutive terms starting in 1998, has largely been absent from the ring. Any seat it wins will be an improvement given that the party drew a blank in 2015. The exit polls predicted the party will win as few as two seats.

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