{"id":319816,"date":"2020-02-11T03:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319816"},"modified":"2020-02-11T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T03:30:25","slug":"delhi-elections-2020-counting-of-votes-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-elections-2020-counting-of-votes-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Elections 2020: Counting of votes begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312499\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312499\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/EVM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/EVM.jpg 552w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/EVM-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/EVM-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Counting of votes for Delhi Assembly election began on Tuesday morning amid tight security at various centres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The results for the 70-seat assembly are expected to be declared by today evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Exit polls have predicted a win for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among the key candidates are AAP\u2019s\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal,\u00a0Manish Sisodia, Raghav Chadha\u00a0and Aatishi, and BJP\u2019s\u00a0Tejinder Singh Bagga\u00a0and\u00a0Kapil Mishra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, the Election Commission had announced that the final voter turnout was 62.59 per cent, five per cent less than 2015.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting of votes for Delhi Assembly election began on Tuesday morning amid tight security at various centres. The results for the 70-seat assembly are expected to be declared by today evening. Exit polls have predicted a win for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Among the key candidates are AAP\u2019s\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal,\u00a0Manish Sisodia, Raghav Chadha\u00a0and Aatishi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[12271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319816"}],"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=319816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319817,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319816\/revisions\/319817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}