Voters wait in line at a polling station under a shade during the sixth phase of voting for national elections in Delhi Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: All seven parliamentary seats in Delhi are polling in the sixth and penultimate phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections on Saturday. A total of 58 seats across six states and two Union territories are voting in this round, with as many as 889 candidates in the fray. The Election Commission has approved the candidature of 162 nominees in the national capital.…Read More
The ruling BJP, which had a 100% strike rate in the national capital in the 2014 and 2019 national polls, is up against the AAP and the Congress, members of the Congress-led opposition INDIA bloc. Under their seat-sharing agreement for Delhi, the AAP is contesting four seats, while the Congress has fielded candidates on the remaining three seats.
Delhi has the following parliamentary segments: Chandni Chowk, North East Delhi, East Delhi, New Delhi, North West Delhi, West Delhi, and South Delhi.
All 10 constituencies in neighbouring Haryana, too, will vote on Saturday. Uttar Pradesh (14/80 seats), West Bengal (8/42), Bihar (8/40), Odisha (6/21), Jharkhand (4/14) and Jammu and Kashmir (1/5), too, will vote in the sixth phase.
