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Delhi Polls: Over 5 Percent Votes Cast In First Hour

Delhi Polls: Over 5 Percent Votes Cast In First Hour
NEW DELHI, INDIA - FEBRUARY 6: Polling staff during their training at NP Bengali School ahead of the Delhi Assembly Elections on February 6, 2015 in New Delhi, India. Polling will be held tomorrow for 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly elections. Over 1.33 crore electorate will decide the fate of 673 candidates in the fray for the Delhi Assembly elections. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - FEBRUARY 6: Polling staff during their training at NP Bengali School ahead of the Delhi Assembly Elections on February 6, 2015 in New Delhi, India. Polling will be held tomorrow for 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly elections. Over 1.33 crore electorate will decide the fate of 673 candidates in the fray for the Delhi Assembly elections. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

NEW DELHI: Over five percent votes were cast in the first hour after balloting began in the Delhi assembly polls at 8 a.m. Saturday, the authorities said.

According to Delhi election commission, 5.40 percent votes were polled till 9 a.m.

Over 13 million people are expected to vote on Saturday in 11,763 polling stations across the capital.

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