Delhi's day out: Did you get inked?

Around 60.5% of Delhi's 15.5 million voters exercised their franchise in Wednesday's crucial assembly elections, marginally lower than the 2020 turnout, showed provisional data from the Election Commission of India (ECI), bringing the curtains down on an acerbic poll cycle that will decide the city's future. To be sure, the final voting numbers are typically released a day after polling.

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Mustafabad clocked the highest turnout of the Capital's 70 assembly segments, with 69% of the constituency in northeast Delhi casting their votes as of llpm, showed the data. Till the time of going to print, Mehrauli was the at bottom end of the list with 53.04% turnout at 11pm, data showed.

The Election Commission of India in a statement said: "All 70 assembly constituencies of the National Capital Territory of Delhi went to polls today in a peaceful and festive atmosphere. Polling started at 7am, and will continue till 6pm... All voters in queue after formal closing hours of polling i.e 6pm are allowed to cast their vote.