India, Feb. 6 -- Around 60.5% of Delhi's 15.5 million voters exercised their franchise in Wednesday's crucial assembly elections, marginally lower than the 2020 turnout, showed provisional data from the Election Commission of India (ECI), bringing the curtains down on an acerbic poll cycle that will decide the city's future. To be sure, the final voting numbers are typically released a day after polling.

Mustafabad clocked the highest turnout of the Capital's 70 assembly segments, with 69% of the constituency in northeast Delhi casting their votes as of 11pm, showed the data. Till the time of going to print, Mehrauli was the at bottom end of the list with 53.04% turnout at 11pm, data showed.

The Election Commission of India in a stateme...