Live updates on the Delhi MCD elections in 2022
According to Parvesh Verma of the BJP, we will win 210 of the 250 seats.
Latest updates for the 2022 Delhi MCD elections: Parvesh Verma, a member of the BJP, and his wife voted in Matiala Village for the Delhi Municipal Corporation election of 2022. He predicted that the saffron party will win about 210 seats out of a total of 250.
LIVE updates for the 2022 Delhi MCD elections: Today, December 4, 2022, voting for the crucial municipal elections in Delhi began. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Congress are the main contenders in this election. The voting for the Delhi municipal elections started at 8 am and will last till 5 pm.
1,45,05,322 people are entitled to cast ballots in the MCD elections, which are being held across 13,638 polling places set up by the Delhi State Election Commission and could determine the fate of as many as 1,349 candidates. 2,04,301 electors are between the ages of 80 and 100, making up about 229 of the 1,45,05,322 voters.
Additionally, 68 model polling places and 68 pink polling places have been constructed by the state commission. The Delhi Police has stationed almost 40,000 security personnel throughout the national capital to ensure a trouble-free civic election, the first one following the new delimitation exercise.
As the first civic election to be held in the national capital following the riots in Delhi in February 2020, 3,360 polling places spread across 493 locations have been designated as critical or sensitive, according to data supplied by officials.
From 2012 to 2022, Delhi had 272 wards and three corporations, the NDMC, SDMC, and EDMC, before being reunified into an MCD, which had officially been established on May 22. The former MCD, founded in 1958, was divided into three parts in 2012, while Sheila Dikshit was the chief minister.
The BJP had previously won 181 of the 270 wards in the 2017 civic election, followed by the AAP with 48 and the Congress with 27. Due to the passing of the candidates, voting could not be conducted for two seats. The voting percentage was at 53 in the 2017 MCD polls.