Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: India’s sixth and penultimate round of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections will go to polls on Saturday for all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, with as many as 889 candidates competing in the elections for 58 seats across six states and two union territories.
In Delhi, the Election Commission has approved the candidacy of 162 candidates. The ruling BJP, which boasted a 100% win rate in the capital in the 2014 and 2019 national elections, will face off against the Congress-led opposition AAP and the Indian National Congress. Under the seat-sharing agreement in Delhi, the AAP will contest four seats, while the Indian National Congress has fielded candidates in the remaining three.
Delhi has the following assembly segments: Chandni Chowk, North East Delhi, East Delhi, New Delhi, North West Delhi, West Delhi and South Delhi.
All 10 constituencies in neighbouring Haryana state will also vote on Saturday. Voting is also taking place in the sixth phase in Uttar Pradesh (14 out of 80 seats), West Bengal (8 out of 42 seats), Bihar (8 out of 40 seats), Odisha (6 out of 21 seats), Jharkhand (4 out of 14 seats) and Jammu and Kashmir (1 out of 5 seats).
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 4:51 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Traffic Police issues advisory
Commuters coming from Sarai Kale Khan/MGM side towards NH-24 can go straight towards Akshardham Flyover and turn left towards Puszta Road/ITO/Vikas Marg to reach their destination. Commuters coming from ITO/Puszta Road side can reach Akshardham Flyover in front of Akshardham Temple and take a U-turn after crossing Akshardham Flyover and then take NH-24 towards Delhi. Press Release
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 4:21 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Indian National Congress Candidates 2019
Chandni Chowk: Jai Prakash Agarwal
North East Delhi: Sheila Dixit
East Delhi: Arbinder Singh Lovely
New Delhi: Ajay Maken.
Northwest Delhi: Rajesh Lirossia
West Delhi: Mahabal Mishra
South Delhi: Vijender Singh
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 4:05 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Who were the AAP candidates in 2019?
Chandni Chowk: Pankaj Kumar Gupta
North East Delhi: Dilip Pandey
East Delhi: Atish
New Delhi: Brijesh Goyal
North West Delhi: Gugan Singh
West Delhi: Balbir Singh Jakhar
South Delhi: Raghav Chavda
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 3:41 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Will BJP have an advantage in Delhi?
The party won every seat with well over 50% of the votes, garnering 56.85% of the total votes cast, in contrast to the Congress’ 22.63% and the AAP’s 18.2%.
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 3:14 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Manoj Tiwari is the only candidate retained by BJP
The BJP has lost all of its sitting Delhi MPs except for its former state unit president Manoj Tiwari, who represents a Northeast Delhi constituency. The party has also lost Harsh Vardhan (Chandni Chowk), Meenakshi Lekhi (New Delhi), Parvesh Varma (West Delhi) and Ramesh Bidhuri (South Delhi).
While Gautam Gambhir (East Delhi) has announced that he will not contest for the party, Hans Raj Jans (Northwest Delhi) has filed for election from Faridkot in Punjab.
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 2:37 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Gandhi family votes for non-Congress candidate for the first time
The Congress’ first family members Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be voting for a non-Congress candidate for the first time in the elections. The Gandhi family are registered voters in the New Delhi assembly seat that went to the AAP in the seat-sharing deal.
AAP’s Somnath Bharti is the joint candidate of both the parties and will face off against his BJP rival Bansuri Swaraj.
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 2:27 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Who are the Indian National Congress (AAP) candidates?
Chandni Chowk: Jai Prakash Agarwal (Indian National Congress)
North East Delhi: Kanya Kumar (Indian National Congress)
North-West Delhi: Udit Raj (Indian National Congress)
East Delhi: Kuldeep Kumar (AAP)
New Delhi: Somnath Bharti (AAP)
West Delhi: Mahabal Mishra (AAP)
South West Delhi: Sahi Ram Pehelwan (AAP)
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May 25, 2024 (Saturday) 2:05 AM
Delhi Election 2024 Live Updates: Who are the BJP candidates?
Chandni Chowk: Praveen Khandelwal
North East Delhi: Manoj Tiwari
East Delhi: Harsh Malhotra
New Delhi: Bansuri Swaraj
Northwest Delhi: Yogender Chandlia
West Delhi: Kamaljeet Sehrawat
South Delhi: Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
