The AAP held on to the nearly 54% votes it had got in the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, while the BJP bagged its second best of 38.5% votes in Assembly elections in Delhi and the Congress registered its worst-ever performance with its vote share slipping to four per cent.
According to Election Commission (EC) figures, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bagged 53.6% votes in the Delhi Assembly polls, the results of which were declared on Tuesday. It had bagged 54.34%t votes in 2015. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party has so far won 48 seats and is leading in 14.
On the other hand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) marginally improved its tally of seats from three to seven. The saffron party bagged 38.5% votes in the national capital, six per cent more than the last time.
In the Lok Sabha polls held in May last year, the BJP had polled over 56% votes in Delhi, more than the combined vote share of the Congress (22.5%) and the AAP (18.1%), and won all the seven seats.
In the first Assembly polls held in Delhi in 1993, the saffron party had bagged 42.82% votes. It secured 34.02% votes in 1998 and 35.22% votes in 2003. It bagged 36.34% votes in 2008, 33.07% votes in 2013 and 32.19% votes in 2015.
However, the worst hit was the Congress with its vote share dipping further to 4.3%.
The grand old party was in power in the national capital from 1998 to 2013. In the 1993 Assembly polls, it had secured 34.48% votes. When it captured power in Delhi in 1998, it had bagged 47.76% votes, followed by 48.13% and 40.31% votes in 2003 and 2008. In 2013, its vote share fell nearly by half to 24.55% and the party managed to win only eight seats.
The Congress’s vote share dipped further to 9.65% in 2015 and to 4.27% in 2020.
NOTA (none of the above) registered a 0.46-% vote share in the Delhi Assembly polls.
The Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP), led by Mayawati, had fielded 68 candidates in the national capital. It bagged a mere 0.71% votes.
