Delhi records low voter turnout for LS polls

But the voter turnout was abysmally low with Polling officers in several Outer Delhi and Delhi Sadar booths catching a nap on their benches while waiting for the voter. By 4 pm, three booths in R K Puram, South Delhi, had only 226 of the roughly 3,000 voters casting their ballot.

Manmohan Singh may have got the chatterati to campaign but could not get the middle-class masses to come out and vote on a Sunday. The average turnout in South Delhi remained as low as 40.16 at 4 pm. The Muslim-dominated Okhla, South Delhi, polled 26 per cent vote till late afternoon. However, in 8217;84-riot-affected Tilak Nagar, it was a brisk 55-60 per cent polling.

In the New Delhi constituency 8212; the residing zone of the country8217;s ruling class 8212; polling was the lowest: only 31 per cent till 3 pm.

BJP-dominated Outer Delhi and East Delhi, recorded 32.08 per cent and 34.12 per cent turnout respectively at 3 pm. Chandni Chowk, which witnessed a triangular star-studded campaign, polled 43 per cent by 4 pm. Karol Bagh had polled 36.96 per cent till 3 pm.

Celebrity voters of New Delhi constituency 8212; Sonia Gandhi and her children Priyanka and Rahul 8212; did not disappoint the papparazzi with a confident Sonia breezing into Nirman Bhawan to cast her vote at 9 am.