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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 Summary

Delhi is a state in India having a Legislative Assembly and it is also a union territory. There are seventy constituencies in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. In the Delhi Election 2020, about 1.46 Crore eligible voters decided the fate of the candidates. There was a three way fight amongst AAP, BJP, and INC. The Aam Aadmi Party has won the Delhi Assembly Election 2020 by securing 62 seats out of 70 i. e. 5 less than the previous election. BJP had a gain of 5 seats than previous having won 8 seats in the Delhi Election Result 2020.

The Result

Arvind Kejriwal will be sworn in as the chief minister of Delhi for the third time. BJP, on the other hand, could manage to bag 8 seats for the Delhi Election 2020. The Congress didn't open the account in the assembly this year, too. Having the same performance in the previous election, the Indian National Congress is considered perished in Delhi. The previous sitting MLA of BJP, Jagdish Pradhan could not win the election in 2020 while the other two sitting MLAs have been re-elected. To recall, the Aam Aadmi Party had won 67 seats in the Delhi Election 2015 and the BJP had won 3 seats.

Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 Party Wise Results

Details of Delhi Assembly Elections Party Seat share and Vote share is given below.

Assembly Election Results 2020 - Constituency Wise Election Results (Winner/Runner Up) : Click Here

Delhi Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 Summary

Delhi is a union territory of India having its own legislative assembly and lieutenant governor. Delhi has 7 Lok Sabha constituencies. Voting for these constituencies was scheduled on May 12, 2019. 1,37,04,356 eligible voters decided the face of candidates amongst various political parties. The prominent parties to participate in the election were AAP, BJP, and INC. Some of the key candidates for the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Delhi were Manoj Tiwari, Harsh Vardhan, and Meenakshi Lekhi relative to BJP; Sheila Dikshit, Ajay Maken, and Vijender Singh from INC; Pankaj Gupta, Dilip Pandey, and Raghav Chadha from AAP.

The Results

On 23 May 2019 as the results stated, BJP swept Delhi by winning all the 7 seats, with its candidates bragging more than 50% votes in their constituencies. The incumbent minister Harsh Vardhan won from Chandni Chowk, BJP’s Delhi state president Manoj Tiwari winning from North East Delhi, the former cricketer Gautam Gambhir procured East Delhi constituency, national Spokesperson of BJP and a supreme court lawyer Meenakshi Lekhi won from New Delhi, singer turned politician Hans Raj Hans from North West Delhi, Parvesh Verma and Ramesh Bidhuri winning from West Delhi and South Delhi constituencies respectively.

Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 - Party Wise Election Results

Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 - Constituency Wise Election Results (Winner/Runner Up)

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Quick facts for Delhi Elections Delhi Election History Administrative structure Issues of the state Delhi Assembly Elections 2015 Political Parties of Delhi List of Chief Ministers of Delhi List of Governors of Delhi MCD Elections 2017

Delhi Assembly By-Election Result 2017- Bawana Constituency

Candidate Name	Party Name	Votes	Satus
Ram Chander	AAP	59,886	Winner
Ved Prakash	Bhartiya Janta Party	35,834	Runner Up
Surender Kumar	Indian National Congress	31,919	2nd Runner Up

Delhi MCD ELection 2017 Results

Party Name	Leading/Won (2017)	2012 Results
AAP	47	AAP did not contest in 2012.
BJP	184	138
Congress	29	77
Others	10	57

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Raiouri Garden Bye Eelction Result 2017

Candidate Name	Party Name	Votes	% of Votes Polled
MANJINDER SINGH SIRSA	BJP	40602	51.99
A. MEENAKSHI CHANDELA A.	INC	25950	33.23
HARJEET SINGH	AAP	10243	13.12
HARDEEP SINGH	Independent	225	0.29
DEVINDER SINGH NAGI	Purvanchal Mahapanchayat	219	0.28
LALIT TAAK	All India Forward Bloc	211	0.27
None of the Above	None of the Above	641	0.82

Result Declared..

Delhi Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Election Results 2015

Pie chart showing 2015 Election Results for Delhi party wise. Also shown along are 2013 and 2008 pie charts showing the number of seats won by BJP, INC, AAP and Others.
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Delhi Cabinet Ministers 2015

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal was today sworn-in as Delhi’s Chief Minister by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung at the Ramlila Maidan. He is the seventh CM of the national capital. He took oath along with six other ministers in front of a large gathering of around 50,000 people. Manish Sisodia is the Deputy Chief Minister, while Kapil Mishra, Satyendra Jain, Asim Ahmad, Gopal Rai and Sandeep Kumar are the other ministers in his cabinet. Immediately after his swearing-in ceremony, he spent six hours in office and announced to take steps by early next week to fulfill his promises.

Delhi Election Results 2015 Summary

Delhi's historical folklore was already enriched with a vast number of tales and anecdotes, but on 10 February 2015, another glorious chapter was added to it. In the Delhi assembly elections of 2015, the AAP cavalry came bludgeoning and trampled everything that came its way. The BJP was at the receiving end this time. The 49 day rule of AAP and Arvind Kejriwal proved more than enough to enable them to win comfortably against an ever strengthening BJP. The AAP has got the number, better than it ever imagined. It now has to deliver on the promises.

Delhi Political Parties Candidate List
BJP Candidate List	Congress Candidate List	Aam Aadmy Party Candidates

Delhi Assembly Elections 2015

Delhi is all set for fresh elections in February 2015. All the major political parties are gearing up for the elections and have formed strategies for effective campaigning in the city. The elections are going to be largely an AAP versus BJP affair. The Congress party, that governed Delhi for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013, seems a mere shadow of its past. Political experts are of the view that the BJP may be able to capitalise on the 'Modi Wave' once again and may emerge as the single largest party with clear majority this time around. While AAP is going to give tough competition to the BJP, it might not be able to reach the clear majority mark. But yet the possibility of a fractured mandate can not be denied.

Delhi seems concerned about the same lot of grim issues that have continued to hurt its status as the national capital for long. Poor water supply and power outages, weak infrastructure, corruption, crime against women, problem of law and order, unemployment and pollution are still the issues that are going to be at the core of the assembly elections.

About Delhi Assembly Elections

The first elections for the Delhi Legislative Assembly were held in 1993 in which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged victorious. The last assembly elections were held in Delhi in 2013 in which Aam Aadmi Party won as many as 28 seats and formed its government with outside support of Indian National Congress (INC). In the 2013 Assembly elections, there were 11,753 polling stations with 11.9 million eligible voters out of which 6.6 million were men and 5.3 million were women including 405,000 first time voters. Presently, Delhi is under President's rule ever since former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal resigned in February 2014.

After its landslide victory in General Elections 2014, the BJP is confident of getting a clear majority in the state Assembly elections and is looking forward to fresh polls in the national capital. The Congress will try its best to regain its lost ground. On the other hand, AAP will have to start from scratch. It has to plan a new strategy to win back the confidence of voters in Delhi.

Unknown facts about Delhi Elections

• Only seven Chief Ministers have ruled over Delhi in its political history. The last one, Arvind Kejriwal, has served the shortest term for only 49 Days, just three short of Sushma Swaraj's (52 days).
• All the Union Territories of India represent 1 seat Lok Sabha seat, except for Delhi which accounts for seven.
• All seven Union Territories of India make a total of 100 Assembly seats collectively. Delhi has 70 while Puducherry accounts for the remaining 30. Five Union Territories do not have a Legislative Assembly.
• The President's rule has there been imposed only once in Delhi's history. It came into force when Arvind Kejriwal tendered his resignation from the post of Delhi CM on 15^th February 2014.
• Delhi did not have a chief minister for more than 37 years between 1st November 1956 and 2^nd December 1993. This is the longest period of time for which a state/UT did not have a chief minister.
• The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) formed the government in Delhi within the shortest span of time since its formation. The party came into existence in November 2012 and formed the government in Delhi in December 2013.
• Delhi accounts for more seats (seven) in the Lok Sabha than that of eleven states and other six Union Territories of India.
• North West Delhi is the only parliamentary seat of Delhi that is reserved for a Scheduled Caste (SC) candidate. Delhi has 12 assembly seats reserved for SCs, none for STs.
• Chaudhary Brahm Prakash was the youngest (and first) Chief Minister of Delhi when he assumed office at the age of 34 in 1952. While Sheila Dikshit is the oldest to have held the office of the CM at the age of 60.
• Gurmukh Nihal Singh was not only the second chief minister of Delhi, he also served as the first ever governor of the state of Rajasthan.

Delhi Lok Sabha Election Summary 2014

Delhi has seven Lok Sabha seats for which elections take place after every five years. BJP bagged all the seven seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. It achieved this feat after 15 years. All the BJP candidates won. These include Dr Harshvardhan from Chandni Chowk, Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi, Mahesh Girri from East Delhi, Parvesh Verma from West Delhi, Ramesh Bidhuri from South Delhi, Udit Raj from North West Delhi and Meenakshi Lekhi from New Delhi. There was a tough fight among the bigwigs of politics from several political parties. The exit polls predicted major victory for the BJP in Delhi which was proved right.

Delhi Election History

Delhi, the national capital of India, is situated on the west bank of the river Yamuna. Delhi shares its borders with Uttar Pradesh to the east, and with Haryana to the north, west and south. It is a metropolitan region and is spread over 1,484 sq km. Though constitutionally Delhi is a union territory, it is regarded as a state in India. It has its own judiciary (Delhi High Court), legislature (the Legislative Assembly) and executive council of Ministers with the Chief Minister as its head.

New Delhi, the capital of India as well as part of the Union Territory of Delhi, houses the major administrative and political buildings and institutions namely Lok Sabha or (The House of People), Rajya Sabha (The Council of States), Rashtrapati Bhavan (the Official Residence of the President of India) and the Supreme Court of India. There are national as well as regional political parties in Delhi.

In the past few years, a number of parties have formed coalitions in order to govern Delhi. The BJP governed Delhi from 1993, with Madan Lal Khurana as the Chief Minister. See Delhi Assembly Election 2013 Results

Administrative structure

The National Capital Territory of Delhi consists of 70 assembly constituencies and seven parliamentary constituencies. Delhi has its own Lieutenant Governor, council of ministers and Chief Minister. The Lieutenant Governor (just like the Governor in other states) is the nominal head of the State and is appointed by the President of India. The judiciary consists of the Delhi High Court and the two lower courts namely the Small Causes Court for civil cases and the Sessions Court for criminal cases. The Supreme Court of India is also located here. Delhi has three local municipal corporations namely, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi Cantonment Board.

Issues of the state

Villages: Though regarded as urban villages, they lack basic infrastructure. Some villages do not have even basic facilities such as water supply, hospitals and proper sanitation. Transport and frequent power failures are other areas of concern that need attention.
Law & Order: Just like the problem of corruption, the issue of law and order in Delhi requires lot of attention.
Water: Delhi continues to face acute water crisis, a condition which may only get worse in future.

Electricity and women’s safety have been the main focus of all the parties during the elections.

Delhi Assembly Elections 2013

The 2013 Assembly elections witnessed the remarkable success of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a new political party. The Congress which was in power in the capital for the last 15 years faced a major defeat winning only 8 out of the 70 Assembly constituencies. BJP won the most with 31 seats, falling short by just 4 seats to reach the half-way mark. The nascent AAP debuted in the Delhi elections winning as many as 28 seats. Other political parties bagged 2 seats. AAP President Arvind Kejriwal defeated Sheila Dikshit in the New Delhi constituency with a huge margin of over 25,000 votes. AAP’s success took most political rivals by surprise, who with support from the Congress, went on to form the government. But Arvind Kejriwal's resignation from the Chief Minister’s post led to President's rule in the state. The Delhi Assembly has been kept in suspended animation.

Political Parties of Delhi

Because of its importance as a political nucleus of India, Delhi has both national as well as regional political parties.

The national parties
INC - Indian National Congress	BJP - Bharatiya Janata Party	BSP - Bahujan Samaj Party
CPIM - Communist Party of India, Marxist	CPI - Communist Party of India	SP - Socialist Party
KMPP - Kisan Majdoor Praja Party	AISCF - All India Scheduled Caste Federation	FBL (MG) - F.B (Marxist Group)
RSP - Revolutionary Socialist Party	RRP - Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad	HMS - Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha

The regional parties in Delhi
Shiromoni Akali Dal	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Aam Aadmi Party

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi