EC terms Delhi turnout as 'satisfactory'

After a row over the delay in announcing total voter turnout for Delhi Assembly elections on Saturday, Chief Election Officer Ranbir Singh on Sunday evening blamed the delay on collation of data.

Singh informed media that the final voter turnout was 62.59 per cent, which he termed "satisfactory".

He said that the Delhi Cantt seat witnessed the lowest turnout with only 45.4 per cent voters exercising their right to vote, while Ballimaran in old Delhi witnessed the highest, at 71.66 per cent of voters. Okhla Assembly constituency, which houses the anti-CAA hot spot of Shaheen Bagh, saw only 58.84 per cent turnout.

Explaining about the delay bring out data, an election officer said: "The data was being compiled at polling station level from scratch and it takes time."