{"id":319790,"date":"2020-02-09T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319790"},"modified":"2020-02-09T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:30:23","slug":"delhi-recorded-62-59-per-cent-voter-turnout-announces-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-recorded-62-59-per-cent-voter-turnout-announces-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi recorded 62.59 per cent voter turnout, announces EC"},"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=\" wp-image-319791 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ranbir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/ranbir.jpg 331w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/ranbir-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/ranbir-301x420.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/>The final voter turnout in the Delhi Assembly Elections was 62.59 per cent, the Election Commission announced on Sunday.<\/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 67.47 per cent in 2015 Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said it was &#8220;absolutely shocking&#8221; that the Election Commission has not released the final voter turnout of assembly polls held a day ago in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAbsolutely shocking. What is EC doing? Why are they not releasing poll turnout figures, several hours after polling?\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The voting ended at 6 pm on Saturday and the last voting percentage given by the commission was 61.46%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deputy Delhi Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in a tweet said, \u201cBJP leaders are giving the voter turnout figures and on the other hand the Election Commission has not been able to give the final voting percentage 24 hours after polling got over.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEC is saying they are compiling data. What\u2019s going on? Are you waiting for the BJP office to give you the final figure?\u201d Sisodia said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final voter turnout in the Delhi Assembly Elections was 62.59 per cent, the Election Commission announced on Sunday. Delhi had recorded a voter turnout of 67.47 per cent in 2015 Assembly polls. Earlier in the day, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said it was &#8220;absolutely shocking&#8221; that the Election Commission has not released the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[12401,9989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319790"}],"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=319790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319792,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319790\/revisions\/319792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}