A voter turnout of 57.70% was recorded in the Delhi Assembly polls on Wednesday, according to data from the Election Commission.

While the North East district in the national capital recorded the highest turnout at 63.83% as of 5 pm, the South East Delhi district saw the lowest at 53.77%.

Voting in the national capital began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm. There are 699 candidates in the fray.

Polling is taking place in a single phase across set up at 2,696 locations for over 1.5 crore to cast their ballot. The votes will be counted on Saturday.

The has deployed 220 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces, 35,626 personnel from the Delhi Police and 19,000 Home Guards to ensure peaceful polling, ANI reported.

About 3,000 polling booths have also been identified as sensitive, where special security arrangements, including drone surveillance, have been made.

The national capital is witnessing a three-way contest between the Aam Aadmi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal is contesting against the BJP’s Parvesh Verma and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit from the New Delhi Assembly constituency.

Chief Minister Atishi is fighting against BJP candidate and the Congress’ Alka Lamba in Kalkaji.

The Jangpura seat is seeing a contest between AAP...