Delhi Cantonment assembly constituency is one of the seventy assembly constituencies of Delhi in northern India. Delhi Cantonment assembly constituency is a part of New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency.
In 2015, Delhi Cantonment assembly constituency had 58 per cent voter turnout. In the Delhi Assembly Elections 2015, Surinder Singh from AAP won this seat bagging 40,133 votes and beating Karan Singh Tanwar from BJP who received 28,935 votes. In 2020, Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Virender Singh Kadian. Other prominent faces to contest the 2020 state assembly election from Delhi Cantonment Assembly are Manish Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party and Sandeep Tanwar of Congress.
Full list of candidates for Delhi Cantonment assembly who will contest Delhi Assembly Election 2020:
1. Nand Kishore Beniwal - Bahujan Samaj Party
2. Manish Singh - Bharatiya Janata Party
3. Virender Singh Kadian - Aam Aadmi Party
4. Surender Singh - Nationalist Congress Party
5. Sandeep Tanwar - Indian National Congress
6. Nagendra Kumar Tiwari - National Youth Party
7. Sachin Kumar - Bhartiya Samajik Nyay Party
8. Ishwar - Independent
9. Bir Singh Chauhan - Independent
10. Manoj Bawan - Independent
11. Sachin - Independent
12. Sanjeev Kumar - Independent
Assembly elections in Delhi will be held on February 8 in what promises to be a high stake triangular contest with the AAP hoping to retain power on the plank of development and the BJP and the Congress determined to put up a spirited challenge. Announcing the 1-day poll for the 70-member Assembly, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora told a news conference on Monday that counting of votes will be taken up on February 11.
Over 1.46 crore voters can exercise their franchise, according to the final electoral roll published on January 6. There are total 1,46,92,136 voters -- 80,55,686 males, 66,35,635 females and 815 belonging to third gender -- in the final voters list. All voters will be provided QR code-enabled voters slip which will speed up voting through easy identification.
This time Delhi will have 13,659 polling stations as compared to 11,763 in 2014, a jump of 16.89 per cent, according to an EC press note. The Commission has decided to extend the facility of postal ballot for "absentee voters", people with disability and those above 80 years of age in all 70 assembly constituencies. In October last year, the government had amended election rules to allow "absentee voters" to vote by postal ballot.
Electors on duty in polling station, electors who are above 80 years of age and the electors marked as 'Persons with Disabilities' in the Electoral Roll will have the option to seek postal ballot paper for casting their vote. The facility of absentee voter status was provided for the first time in the country in seven assembly constituencies in Jharkhand which went to polls recently.
