Delhi MCD election: Polls to be held on December 4, results on Dec 7

The dates of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections have been announced by the election commission on November 4. As per the announcement, the MCD elections will be held on December 4 and the counting of the votes will be done on December 7.

Giving details, Delhi State Election Commissioner Vijay Dev said that the model code of conduct is imposed in the national capital from today itself.

"The issue of notification will be on Nov 7 and will end on Nov 14. The last date of withdrawal of candidature is Nov 19. Voting for the polls will be on December 4 and the results will be announced on December 7," said Vijay Dev.

He further informed that the delimitation process in the national capital has been completed and polling stations have been redrawn.

"Now we are prepared for 250 wards in Delhi. The municipal corporation of Delhi has jurisdiction in 68 constituencies. 42 seats are reserved for SCs," he said. The state election commission also announced the number of seats reserved for the scheduled caste women and women of the general category."Out of those 42 seats for SC, 21 seats will be for SC women. 104 seats will be reserved for women," said Vijay Dev.

Aam Adami Party (AAP) and BJP are the two major parties fighting the MCD elections.

The total number of civic body poll wards in the national capital was reduced from 272 to 250 following a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday pertaining to the redrawing of wards of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

After the 'delimitation' of MCD wards by the central government, the total number of wards in the MCD will amount to 250 of which 42 are decided to be reserved.

Notably, AAP Delhi raised concerns that there is no equal distribution of population in the delimitation of wards. Aam Aadmi Party leaders had also lodged their objection by meeting the state election officials. It is worth mentioning that the draft of the delimitation was prepared on September 12 and it was reviewed till October 3.