Delhi polls to take place on Feb. 7: Election Commission

The Election Commission on Monday announced that the Delhi Assembly polls will take place on February 7, and the counting of the votes will take place on February 10.

"You are aware of the dissolution of the erstwhile legislative assembly by Presidential order, dated November 4, 2014. Legally, the commission, as per the principle, laid down by the Supreme Court of India the commission can take six months time for holding the next general elections," Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) VS Sampath told the media.

"However, since the dissolution of the President will expire by February 15, 2015 and in order to restore the mandate of the people as expeditiously as possible, the commission has decided to go in for elections where results will be known well before February 15," he added

Sampath further said that there are 70 assembly constituencies in Delhi of which 12 are reserved for SCs.

"The electoral roll, which has been published on January 5, consists of 1.03 crore electors," he said.

"Photo electoral rolls will be used for the conduction of rolls. There are 11, 763 polling stations in the national capital territory," he added.

Delhi has been under President's rule since February after the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government stepped down after 49 days in power.