{"id":319754,"date":"2020-02-08T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T09:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319754"},"modified":"2020-02-08T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T09:44:44","slug":"delhi-polls-30-69-voter-turnout-recorded-till-3-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-polls-30-69-voter-turnout-recorded-till-3-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi polls: 30.69% voter turnout recorded till 3 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319755 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/delhi-polls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/delhi-polls.jpg 694w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/delhi-polls-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/delhi-polls-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/delhi-polls-551x420.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/>The voter turnout in Delhi assembly elections was recorded around 30.69 percent till 3 pm on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling for the 70\u00a0assembly constituencies in Delhi began at 8 am today and will continue till 6.00 pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2015, AAP had swept the elections by a landslide margin of 67 seats, with the BJP winning only 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The AAP, under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is seeking to retain the power in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi had recorded a voter turnout of 67.12% in the last Assembly Elections held in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former party President Rahul Gandhi cast their votes early in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voter turnout in Delhi assembly elections was recorded around 30.69 percent till 3 pm on Saturday.\u00a0 Polling for the 70\u00a0assembly constituencies in Delhi began at 8 am today and will continue till 6.00 pm.\u00a0 In 2015, AAP had swept the elections by a landslide margin of 67 seats, with the BJP winning only 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[12401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319758,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319754\/revisions\/319758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}