Delhi MCD Elections 2017 Live: Polling ends, 54 % voting recoded

Over 1.32 crore eligible voters are likely to exercise their franchise at 13,022 polling booths across the city.

Voting started on Sunday morning for municipal elections in Delhi across 272 wards.

Over 2,500 candidates are in the fray for elections to North Delhi Municipal Corporation and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (104 seats each) and East Delhi Municipal Congress (64 seats).

Over 1.32 crore eligible voters are likely to exercise their franchise at 13,022 polling booths across the city.

Leaders of various political parties including the Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress are expected to cast their ballot early in the day.

Over 56,000 Delhi Police and paramilitary personnel are on guard at the polling booths, while an additional 20,000 home guards have been deployed to ensure law and order in the city on the election day. The counting of votes will take place on April 26.

Here are the live updates:

05:40: Polling time for Delhi Municipal polls ends

05:25: Delay in sending poll percentage by officials has irked SEC, a memo will be issued to officials.

03:55 pm: 31.13% voting recorded till 2 pm in 183 out of 270 wards voting today

03:52 pm: 16.71% voting percentage has been recorded till 12 noon. As per the Election Commission update, 2,237,056 votes were polled till 12 PM.

12:21 pm: Former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit after casting her vote in a polling booth in DAV School(Nizamuddin East)

11:26 am: Municipal elections to two wards in Delhi have been postponed due to the death of two candidates. The two wards are Maujpur in East Delhi and Sarai Pipal in North Delhi. Both candidates belonged to the Samajwadi Party.

10:49 am: 1.16 per cent voting in Delhi municipal polls till 10:30 am

10:44 am: Congress's Ajay Maken after casting vote at a polling booth in Rajouri Garden in Delhi

10:14 am: Parties appeal voters to come out and cast their vote

नये चहेरे, नई उर्जा, नई उड़ान - दिल्ली मांगे कमल निशान। भाजपा को वोट दें। #Vote4BJP pic.twitter.com/61mR1rSBXL

— BJP (@BJP4India) April 23, 2017

Vote for Congress. Vote for Governance. Vote for Delhi. pic.twitter.com/KyiWogthfj

— INC India (@INCIndia) April 23, 2017

10:11 am: Rajouri Garden councillor Subhash Arya casts his ballot.

10:09 am: My switching to BJP wasn't an overnight decision, it was what the Congress did for last two years: Arvinder Singh Lovely

09:28 am: Minor spat reported at polling booths after a few people objected on wearing saffron colour.

09:24 am: If you want freedom from garbage and diseases, says Arvind Kejriwal, after casting vote in Road Transport Office in Civil Lines

वोट ज़रूर डालें,
कूड़ा मुक्त, डेंगू और चिकनगुनिया मुक्त दिल्ली के लिए वोट डालें।#Vote4CleanDelhi pic.twitter.com/tGXiGkNE3X

— AAP Delhi Official (@aapdelhincr) April 23, 2017

09:06 am: If you go to the slums, you would see that the people living ion slums do not even have water to drink. This is what Arvind Kejriwal done in Delhi: Manoj Tiwari

09:05 am: Union Minister Dr.Harshvardhan after casting his vote in a polling booth in Krishna Nagar's Ratan Devi School

Union Minister Dr.Harshvardhan after casting his vote in a polling booth in Krishna Nagar's Ratan Devi School #MCDelections2017 pic.twitter.com/KpMhseOkeV

— ANI (@ANI_news) April 23, 2017

08:42 am: Arvinder Singh Lovely who recently joined BJP returns from polling booth in East Azad Nagar after EVM was not working

Arvinder Singh Lovely who recently joined BJP returns from polling booth in East Azad Nagar after EVM was not working #MCDelections2017 pic.twitter.com/k9T8gAmw8o

— ANI (@ANI_news) April 23, 2017

08:40 am: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia arrives at Pandav Nagar, says if people want to see a clean Delhi and get rid of dengue they should vote for AAP.

08:32 am: Delhi Lt.Governor Anil Baijal after casting his vote in a polling station in Greater Kailash-3

Delhi Lt.Governor Anil Baijal after casting his vote in a polling station in Greater Kailash-3 #MCDelections2017 pic.twitter.com/9QyWVTmyHp

— ANI (@ANI_news) April 23, 2017

08:00 am: Voting underway in Delhi's Pandav Nagar for MCD elections

Voting underway in Delhi's Pandav Nagar for #MCDelections2017 pic.twitter.com/f0vL1A4bj6

— ANI (@ANI_news) April 23, 2017

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