The counting of votes for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly polls will begin at 8 am on Sunday amid tight security. 

Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Dr Ranbir Singh said the counting will start at 8 am ITI Pusa at on Sunday. AAP's Durgesh , BJP's Rajesh Bhatia  and Congress nominee Prem Lata are the main contestants from Rajinder Nagar seat.

Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Dr Ranbir Singh said the counting will start at 8 am on Sunday.  "Postal ballots will be counted first, and only those ballots which have been received from service voters till 8 am tomorrow will be considered for counting.

After that, the EVM votes shall be counted," Dr Singh said. A separate special box will be there for counting of VVPAT slips, he added. According to officials, 43.67 per cent of the male electorate and 43.86 per cent of female voters turned up for the June 23 bypoll. The percentage of third gender voters stood at 50 per cent. The bypoll passed off peacefully with a low turnout of 43.75 per cent. This is significantly less than the figures recorded in the 2020 polls, when the voter turnout in Rajinder Nagar was 58.27 per cent -- 58.09 per cent male voters and 58.5 per cent female voters.

A total of 1,64,698 voters were eligible to exercise their franchise in the by-election, in which 14 candidates are trying their luck, although it was largely being seen as a battle between a confident AAP and a spirited BJP.

The AAP and BJP have exuded confidence that their candidates will emerge victorious with a huge margin. This was also the first electoral exercise in Delhi after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. And, 24 Covid-positive voters turned up to exercise their franchise in the bypoll, officials had earlier said.

The Rajinder Nagar bypoll turnout was even lower than the figures recorded in the Rajouri Garden bypoll (46.5 per cent) and Bawana bypoll 44.8 per cent), both held in 2017.