Voting for the 70-member Delhi Assembly will be held in a single phase on February 5, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday (January 7, 2025). By-elections to the Assembly constituencies of Erode (East) in Tamil Nadu and Milkipur in Uttar Pradesh will also be held on the same date.

Counting of votes will take place on February 8. While the last date for filing nominations is January 17, the scrutiny of nominations will be over by January 18. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is January 20. The entire poll process will be completed by February 10.

The term of the current Delhi Assembly ends on February 23. Announcing the dates at a press conference here, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said that the polling date has been deliberately placed on a Wednesday (weekday - January 8, 2025) like in Maharashtra so that more people can come out to vote. More than 13,000 polling stations will be set up in Delhi, he said.

According to the final electoral rolls published on Monday (January 6, 2025), Delhi has a total of 1.55 crore voters, of which 83.49 lakh are men, 71.74 lakh women and 1,261 transgenders. There are 25.89 lakh young voters, 2.08 lakh first-time voters, and 830 above 100 years of age.

Of the 70 seats in Delhi, 58 are general and 12 reserved.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is seeking a third straight term in office in the national capital. In the 2020 Assembly polls, AAP won 62 seats, BJP 8 and the Congress drew a blank.

While Both AAP and BJP have sparred over additions and deletions in the voter list in the national capital ahead of these elections, the CEC allayed these fears stating that every step of the electoral process was rooted in transparency.

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