Three minority-dominated seats of Ballimaran, Mustafabad and Seelampur recorded the highest voter turnout in the Delhi Assembly elections held on February 8. The lowest voter turnout in Delhi was recorded in Delhi cantonment at 45.35 per cent.
According to the data shared by officials, Ballimaran in Old Delhi recorded 71.58 per cent voter turnout while Matia Mahal 70.38 in Old Delhi, the area that saw anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests, recorded a voter turnout of 65.62 per cent.
Mustafad recorded 70.55, Gokalpuri recorded a total voter turnout of 70.51 percentage and Seelampur, another minority-dominated seat in northeast Delhi, recorded 71.22 per cent voting. They are had also seen anti-CAA protests in December. Long queues were seen outside polling stations in areas like Jaffrabad, Jamia Nagar, Turkman Gate and Shaheen Bagh which have been witnessing protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
At the Shaheen Bagh protest site, women voted in batches. Mehzabeen Qureshi, who returned to the protest site after voting, said, "I stayed at home to let other women in the house go out and vote. Now I have joined them here at Shaheen Bagh after voting. I voted today to secure democracy."
Delhi recorded 62.59 per cent voter turnout on Saturday, down from 67.17 per cent in 2015 assembly election, with exit polls predicting an easy win for AAP, which sought to retain power on development plan, against the BJP that ran an aggressive campaign centered on the issues of anti-CAA protests and nationalism.