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LS polls: Maximum voters in North West Delhi; highest women electorate count in West Delhi

The North West Delhi constituency has over 23 lakh electors, the highest among all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, according to data shared by the Delhi CEO Office on Thursday.
LS polls: Maximum voters in North West Delhi; highest women electorate count in West Delhi
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NEW DELHI: The North West Delhi constituency has over 23 lakh electors, the highest among all the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, according to data shared by the Delhi CEO Office on Thursday. Over 1.43 crore voters are eligible to vote in the Delhi polls due on May 12.
The total number of male and female electorate in the city are 78,73,022 and 64,42,762 respectively, while 669 belong to the third gender.

According to the data shared by the office of the Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer, the North West Delhi constituency has 23,77,604 electors in the constituency - 13,04,555 (men); 10,72,891 (women) and 158 (third gender).
The number of electors in some of the other constituencies are - West Delhi (23,67,509); North East Delhi (22,89,493); South Delhi (20,65,755).
While the North West Delhi has maximum number of total electorate and male voters among all the seven constituencies, West Delhi has the highest number of female voters (10,90,797).
The CEO office also said that, as many as 182 FIRs and daily diary (DD) entries were filed against political parties and others here for violation of the Model Code of Conduct till date.
The statistics surveillance team of Delhi's Chief Electoral Office constituted to keep an eye on the expenses of political parties, has seized Rs 3.01 crore in cash and 1406 kg of narcotics and drugs.

"A total of 182 FIRs or DD entries have been lodged till date in connection with the violation of the Model Code of Conduct," the office of the Delhi CEO said in the statement.
"Out of these, 21 are against the Aam Aadmi Party (13 FIRs and eight DD entries), 28 against the Bhartiya Janata Party (14 FIRs and 14 DD entries), nine against the Congress (three FIRs and six DD entries), one against the Bahujan Samaj Party (an FIR), Samajwadi Party (one DD entry), four against CPI (M) (two FIRs and two DD entries) and 118 (114 FIRs and four DD entries) are against others or non-political (entities)," it said.
The office of the Delhi CEO said over 3.31 lakh posters, banners and hoardings have been removed since March 10, when the poll code came into force.
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