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Voting for bypolls successful 12 wards of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) began connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) greeting amid choky security.
The voting volition extremity astatine 5:30 p.m.
The polls are expected to uncover the voters' temper successful the nationalist superior aft a broad triumph of the BJP successful the Assembly predetermination earlier this year.
The State Election Commission has acceptable up 580 booths crossed 143 polling locations for the 12 bypolls. A full of 2,320 predetermination committee personnel, 580 Home Guards and 2,265 different personnel, on with 13 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces are facilitating the electoral exercise.
The destiny of 51 candidates, including 26 women, volition beryllium decided astatine the ballot.
The BJP has fielded the highest fig of women candidates (8), followed by AAP (6) and Congress (5). The predetermination is being intimately observed arsenic AAP and the BJP volition instrumentality connected each different again aft the Assembly polls held successful February.
The saffron enactment won 48 retired of the 70 constituencies and returned to powerfulness successful Delhi aft 27 years, ousting AAP. Of the 12 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) wards, 9 were earlier held by the BJP and 3 by AAP.
