Delhi: MCD polls to be held on December 4; results on December 7

NEW DELHI: The state election commission on Friday announced the dates for Delhi Municipal Corporation elections.
During a press conference, the commission announced that the polls will be held on December 4 in 250 municipal wards and counting of votes will take place on December 7.
For 250 municipal wards in Delhi, 1.46 crore people will cast their votes.
"With the announcement election date, the model code of conduct has come into force in the capital from today itself, said Delhi state election commissioner, Vijay Dev.

He said that the issue of notification will be on November 7 and will end on November 14. The last date of withdrawal of candidature is November 19.
Dev said that of the 250 wards, 42 seats are reserved for for SC candidates, 21 seats fo women SC candidates and 104 seats will be reserved for women candidates.
"We have completed the delimitation process in Delhi. Polling stations were redrawn. Now we are prepared for 250 wards in Delhi. Municipal corporation of Delhi has jurisdiction in 68 constituencies," he said.
Originally scheduled to be held in the first half of 2022, Delhi civic polls were postponed after the Centre's decision to unify three erstwhile municipal corporations into the MCD.

BJP has been in power in the civic bodies for the past 15 years. It won the 2007 elections when Municipal Corporation of Delhi was a unified body. The party was also victorious in the first election after the trifurcation in 2012, and then in 2017.
It's going to be a three-cornered fight in the first civic poll after reunification.

In 2017, BJP had won 181 seats in three corporations East, North and South - combined, while AAP emerged victorious on 49 and Congress on 31.
The elections were held on 272 wards in 2017. This year, following a delimitation exercise, the Union ministry of home affairs has reduced the number of municipal wards to 250. The state election commission has already notified the wards that will be reserved for women and SC candidates.