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New Delhi: Around 699 candidates have filled nomination for Delhi assembly polls on 70 seats in Delhi where polls will be held on February 5, with the maximum number of 23 trying their luck in the high-profile New Delhi seat of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, officials said.
An official said that the deadline to withdraw names is on Monday. Till a day before the declaration of the final list of candidates, 719 candidates had remained in the fray after the scrutiny of nomination papers on Friday-Saturday.
At least 1,522 nomination sets, including multiple ones, were filed by 981 candidates till Sunday.
After the deadline for withdrawal of names ended on Monday, the New Delhi constituency from where Kejriwal is fighting his fourth election has 23 candidates. Janakpuri has 16 candidates, Karawal Nagar, Laxmi Nager and Rohtas Nagar have 15 candidates each.
While Burari and Adarsh Nagar have 14 nominees each, over half a dozen constituencies, including Mundka, R.K. Puram, Kalkaji, Matiala, Dwarka and Seelampur, have 13 candidates each. The seats with 13 nominees each include the city’s most populous constituency – Vikaspuri with 4,62,184 voters.
The smallest seat Delhi Cantonment – with just 78,893 voters – has seven candidates.
As per the EC’s electoral roll, the total electorate in the national capital stands at 1,55,24,858, out of which 83,49,645 are male, 71,73,952 female and 1,261 third-gender voters.
Earlier, a walkathon was organised on Sunday by students of Maharaja Agrasen College, East Delhi, to raise awareness about the importance of voting in the upcoming Delhi Legislative Assembly Election 2025.
The event aimed to inspire citizens, especially young voters, to actively participate in the democratic process.
