2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

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2013 Delhi state assembly election
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All 70 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi
36 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout66.02% (Increase2.svg8.42%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Harsh Vardhan in 2017.jpg Arvind Kejriwal June 15, 2015 crop.jpg Sheila Dikshit Ji.jpg
Leader Harsh Vardhan Arvind Kejriwal Sheila Dikshit
Party BJP AAP INC
Leader since201220121998
Leader's seat Krishna Nagar New Delhi New Delhi
(lost)
Seats before23New43
Seats after32288
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 9NewDecrease2.svg 35
Popular vote2,604,1002,322,3301,932,933
Percentage33%29.5%24.6%
SwingDecrease2.svg 3.4%NewDecrease2.svg 15.7%
 Fourth party
  Mayawati.jpg
Leader Mayawati
Party BSP
Leader's seatNot Contested
Seats before2
Seats after0
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 2
Popular vote420,926
Percentage5.35%
SwingDecrease2.svg 8.69%
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Map of Delhi showing results of the 2013 Vidhan Sabha election
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Chief Minister before election

Sheila Dikshit
INC

Elected Chief Minister

Arvind Kejriwal
AAP

The Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 December 2013, with the result announced on 8 December resulting in formation of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. [1] [2]

Contents

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a plurality, closely followed by Aam Aadmi Party, in its first election; this resulted in a hung assembly. After the BJP refused to form a government in the hung assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal became chief minister with external support from the Indian National Congress (INC). [3]

Electoral law change

This was one of the first five elections in which the Election Commission of India implemented a "None of the above" (NOTA) voting option, allowing the electorate to register a neutral to people any think vote but not to outright reject candidates. [4] In a first, the Election Commission of India also appointed Central Awareness Observers, whose main task was to oversee voter awareness and facilitation. [5]

Contesting parties

There were 810 candidates running for office, including 224 independents. [6]

PartySeats contestedChief Minister CandidateNotes/Link to Candidate lists
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)69 Arvind Kejriwal [7] [8]
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)2 [9]
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)66 Harsh Vardhan [10] [11]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)70 [12]
Communist Party of India (CPI)10 [9]
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM)3 [9]
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) (L)4 [9]
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK)11 [13]
Indian National Congress (INC)70 Sheila Dikshit [14] [15]
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)70 [16]
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)4Harsh Vardhan
(as part of NDA)
Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI)1

BJP and SAD formed a pre-poll alliance; SAD contested four seats (Hari Nagar, Rajouri Garden, Kalkaji and Shahdara), while BJP contested the rest. [17]

Campaign

The AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal called the BJP's Harsh Vardhan the "Manmohan Singh of the BJP" as incapable of stemming the "rot" in Delhi's governance. He added: "We will help the people of Delhi get rid of Congress misgovernance first, and then ensure change at the national level in the Lok Sabha polls." However, Vardhan was supported by the BJP's prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 Indian general election, Narendra Modi. [18] The Hindustan Times suggested that the Rajnath Singh-appointed BJP Delhi leader, Vijay Goel, though organisationally competent, lost favour due to his exclusion of established regional leaders in reorganising local units. Singh was still viewed as reluctant to "change horses in mid-stream" but agreed. Modi led the charge, with other party leaders, to have Vardhan as the chief ministerial candidate [19] and Goel himself agreed to the nomination of Vardhan. [20] The AAP released its first electoral manifesto. [21]

Opinion polls

Number of seats

SurveyDate AAP BJP INC OthersSource
AAP-Cicero30 November 201338-5011-178-140-13 [22]
BJP (Internal)November 201353611-18 "swing seats where the readings were too close to call" [22]
India TV-CVoterNovember 20131029274 [22]
India Today, ORGNovember 2013636224 [23]
Times Now, C-VoterNovember 20131825243 [24]
CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDSOctober 201319-2522-2819-250-2 [25]
ABP News-AC NielsenOctober 20131828222 [26]
India TV-CVoter-Times NowSeptember 2013730294 [27]
Hindustan Times-C ForeSeptember 20137-1222-2732-370-4 [28]

Vote share

SurveyDate AAP BJP INC OthersSource
AAP-Cicero30 November 201336%27%26%11% [22]
BJPNovember 201318%35%24%23% [22]
India TV-CVoterNovember 201324%33%30%13% [22]
CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDSOctober 201328%29%27%16% [26]
ABP News-AC NielsenSeptember 201315%34%29%22% [29]
India TV-CVoter-Times NowSeptember 201316%38%34%12% [27]
Hindustan Times-C ForeSeptember 201320%32%34%14% [28]
AAP-CiceroSeptember 201332%23%25%20% [30]

Election

There were 11,753 polling stations, including the presence of EVMs, while 630 identified as critical and hypercritical. There were 11.9  million eligible voters, of which 6.6  million were men and 5.3  million were women while there were 405,000 first-time voters. 32,801 Delhi Police personnel and 107 companies of central paramilitary forces were deployed to ensure a peaceful election. Polling stations opened at 8:00 am and turnout was 66%. [6]

Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs was used in 1 assembly seat in Delhi elections-New Delhi. [31] [32] Polling stations in Tuglaqabad, Karol Bagh, Trilokpuri and Badarpur reportedly had long waits because EVMs dysfunctioned. In Jungpura, Badli, Krishna Nagar, and Kondli constituencies, some voters complained that their names were on the electoral rolls and that they could not vote.

After voting, party leaders expressed their opinion. Kejriwal said he is confident of a positive result for his party. [33] Vardhan claimed the BJP was "far ahead" of the INC and Aam Aadmi Party. "I can tell you very categorically that we are far ahead of Congress and the new entrant in Delhi politics. I am 100 percent confident about our victory. I think nobody can make any dent in our vote bank. If there is any contest or fight, it is between the Congress and the new entrant (for the second place)." Dikshit said she had her "fingers crossed" on the outcome, while national party leader Sonia Gandhi said from her Nirman Bhavan polling station: "We will win." [6] At many places people with disabilities could not vote due to inaccessible polling booths. [34] [35]

In all over 43,000 postal ballots were received, an increase from the last election's 1,600 postal ballots. The Delhi Election Commission announced that 2,000 Central Paramilitary Force and Delhi Police personnel were at the vote-counting centers in the city on the day of the result announcement and CCTV cameras and live streaming of proceedings through webcasting, two layers of security cover have been set at all the 14 counting centers. Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev said: "Paramilitary force forms the inner circle of security of centers while adequate numbers of Delhi Police personnel will ensure safety from outside. Counting of votes will start from 8 AM tomorrow and during the first-hour postal ballots will be counted." [36] The postal ballots were counted before the EVM votes. [37]

Exit polls showed the BJP in the lead to possibly form a government on its own, followed by the AAP and the incumbent INC in third place; others, in general, were fourth with the BSP following. [38]

Result

Notably, the INC's Chaudhary Prem Singh lost in the Ambedkar Nagar constituency, he held the seat since 1993 and had not lost a single election in 50 years; however, Ashok Kumar of the AAP won the seat. [39] Incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit lost her New Delhi constituency seat to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal by a margin that was much more than her total votes and winning hardly 500 votes more than the BJP's Vijender Kumar who finished third; [40] she then submitted her resignation to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung. [41]

Summary of results of the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election [42]
Political partyFlagSeats
Contested		WonNet change
in seats		 % of
seats		VotesVote %Change in
vote %
Bharatiya Janata Party 6631Increase2.svg 844.32,604,10033.07Decrease2.svg 3
Aam Aadmi Party AAP Symbol.png 6928New40.02,322,33029.49New
Indian National Congress 708Decrease2.svg 3511.41,932,93324.55Decrease2.svg 15
Janata Dal (United) JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG 271Increase2.svg 11.468,8180.87New
Shiromani Akali Dal 41Increase2.svg 11.471,7571N/A
Independents 225101.410N/A
Total70Voters7,699,800Turnout: 66%
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  Aam Aadmi Party
  Indian National Congress
  Janata Dal (United)
  Shiromani Akali Dal
  Independent

Results by districts

DistrictSeatsBJPAAPINCOthers
North Delhi 84310
Central Delhi 70421
North West Delhi 73211
West Delhi 74310
New Delhi 62400
South West Delhi 76100
South East Delhi 73310
South Delhi 52300
East Delhi 61410
Shahdara 54100
North East Delhi 53020
Total70322882

Results by constituency

Assembly ConstituencyTurnout
(%)		WinnerRunner UpMargin
#NameCandidatePartyVotes%CandidatePartyVotes%
North Delhi District
1 Narela 68.15Neel Daman KhatriBJP54,62237.95VirenderBSP31,07721.5923,545
Central Delhi District
2 Burari 65.96 Sanjeev Jha AAP60,16437.07Sri KrishanBJP49,81330.6910,351
3 Timarpur 65.48Harish KhannaAAP39,65035.03Rajni AbbiBJP36,26732.043,383
North Delhi District
4 Adarsh Nagar 66.44 Ram Kishan Singhal BJP36,98538.08Jagdeep RanaAAP26,92927.7310,056
5 Badli 61.53 Devender Yadav INC54,37244.60Vijay Kumar BhagatBJP31,26325.6523,109
North West Delhi District
6 Rithala 64.91Kulwant RanaBJP73,96151.30Harish AwasthiAAP48,13533.3925,286
North Delhi District
7 Bawana(SC) 61.14 Gugan Singh Ranga BJP68,40741.10ManojAAP42,76825.6925,639
North West Delhi District
8 Mundka 63.28Rambir ShokeenIND52,56434.27Azad SinghBJP45,43029.627,134
9 Kirari 64.21 Anil Jha Vats BJP72,28352.15Rajan PrakashAAP23,75717.1448,526
10 Sultanpur Majra(SC) 63.88Jai KishanINC31,45829.79Sandeep KumarAAP30,34628.741,112
West Delhi District
11 Nangloi Jat 61.64Manoj Kumar ShokeenBJP57,44942.32Dr. Bijender SinghINC46,43434.2011,015
North West Delhi District
12 Mangol Puri(SC) 69.73 Rakhi Birla AAP44,38338.42Raj Kumar ChauhanINC33,79829.2510,585
North Delhi District
13 Rohini 68.15 Rajesh Garg AAP47,89043.54 Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal BJP46,01841.841,852
North West Delhi District
14 Shalimar Bagh 66.62 Bandana Kumari AAP47,23544.01Ravinder Nath BansalBJP36,58434.0910,651
North Delhi District
15 Shakur Basti 70.85 Satyendra Kumar Jain AAP40,23242.30Shyam Lal GargBJP33,17034.877,062
North West Delhi District
16 Tri Nagar 66.55 Nand Kishore Garg BJP36,97035.78 Jitender Singh Tomar AAP34,16133.062,809
North Delhi District
17 Wazirpur 67.05Dr. Mahender NagpalBJP37,30636.25Praveen KumarAAP31,73230.845,574
18 Model Town 68.53 Akhilesh Pati Tripathi AAP38,49239.84Ashok GoelBJP30,61731.697,875
Central Delhi District
19 Sadar Bazar 66.80 Som Dutt AAP34,07931.24Jai ParkashBJP33,28330.51796
20 Chandni Chowk 65.48 Parlad Singh Sawhney INC26,33537.77Suman Kumar GuptaBJP18,09225.958,243
21 Matia Mahal 65.77 Shoaib Iqbal JD(U)22,73231.72Mirza Javed AliINC19,84127.682,891
22 Ballimaran 67.47 Haroon Yusuf INC32,10536.18Moti Lal SodhiBJP24,01227.068,093
23 Karol Bagh(SC) 67.34 Vishesh Ravi AAP35,81835.06 Surender Pal Ratawal BJP34,06833.341,750
New Delhi District
24 Patel Nagar(SC) 65.96 Veena Anand AAP38,89937.91Poornima VidyarthiBJP32,63731.816,262
West Delhi District
25 Moti Nagar 68.99 Subhash Sachdeva BJP42,59942.42Kuldeep Singh ChannaAAP26,57826.4716,021
26 Madipur(SC) 68.09 Girish Soni AAP36,39335.87Kailash SanklaBJP35,29034.881,103
27 Rajouri Garden 68.93 Manjinder Singh Sirsa SAD41,72140.93Dhanwanti ChandelaINC30,71330.1311,008
28 Hari Nagar 66.69Jagdeep SinghAAP38,91238.81Shyam SharmaSAD30,03629.968,876
29 Tilak Nagar 66.20 Jarnail Singh AAP34,99339.27Rajiv BabbarBJP32,40536.902,088
30 Janakpuri 69.05 Jagdish Mukhi BJP42,88639.87 Rajesh Rishi AAP40,24237.422,644
South West Delhi District
31 Vikaspuri 63.23 Mahinder Yadav AAP62,03034.33Krishan GahlotBJP61,62734.10405
32 Uttam Nagar 69.48Pawan SharmaBJP48,37736.38Mukesh SharmaINC42,03131.616,346
33 Dwarka 65.51 Parduymn Rajput BJP42,73437.30Ravi Kumar SuryanAAP37,53732.775,197
34 Matiala 64.13 Rajesh Gahlot BJP70,05336.10 Gulab Singh Yadav AAP66,05134.054,002
35 Najafgarh 67.96Ajeet Singh KharkhariBJP54,35833.27Bharat SinghINLD44,59031.009,768
36 Bijwasan 63.15Sat Prakash RanaBJP35,98834.65 Devinder Sehrawat AAP33,57432.322,414
37 Palam 63.14 Dharam Dev Solanki BJP42,83333.30 Bhavna Gaur AAP34,66126.798,372
New Delhi District
38 Delhi Cantonment 60.22 Surinder Singh AAP26,12439.67Karan Singh TanwarBJP25,76939.13355
39 Rajinder Nagar 60.54 R. P. Singh BJP35,71335.82Vijendar Garg VijayAAP33,91734.021,796
40 New Delhi 66.93 Arvind Kejriwal AAP44,26953.46 Sheila Dikshit INC18,40522.2325,864
South East Delhi District
41 Jangpura 62.30 Maninder Singh Dhir AAP29,70136.95Tarvinder Singh MarwahINC27,95734.781,744
42 Kasturba Nagar 66.56 Madan Lal AAP33,60938.03Shikha RoyBJP28,93532.744,674
South Delhi District
43 Malviya Nagar 65.74 Somnath Bharti AAP32,25839.43 Arti Mehra BJP24,48629.937,772
New Delhi District
44 R K Puram 63.46 Anil Kumar Sharma BJP28,01733.17 Shazia Ilmi AAP27,69132.78326
South Delhi District
45 Mehrauli 62.06 Parvesh Verma BJP37,48138.72Narinder Singh SejwalAAP32,91734.014,564
46 Chhatarpur 66.12Brahm Singh TanwarBJP49,97545.07Balram TanwarINC33,85130.5316,124
47 Deoli(SC) 64.22 Prakash Jarwal AAP51,64643.41Gagan RanaBJP34,53826.0217,108
48 Ambedkar Nagar(SC) 68.68 Ashok Kumar Chauhan AAP36,23942.42Khushiram ChunarBJP24,56928.7611,670
South East Delhi District
49 Sangam Vihar 64.95 Dinesh Mohaniya AAP24,85127.87Shiv Charan Lal GuptaBJP24,07427.00777
New Delhi District
50 Greater Kailash 66.15 Saurabh Bhardwaj AAP43,09745.26Ajay Kumar MalhotraBJP30,00531.5113,092
South East Delhi District
51 Kalkaji 63.11 Harmeet Singh Kalka BJP30,68333.77Dharambir SinghAAP28,63931.522,044
52 Tughlakabad 66.19 Ramesh Bidhuri BJP34,00938.98 Sahi Ram BSP28,06332.175,946
53 Badarpur 64.20 Ramvir Singh Bidhuri BJP43,54434.23 Ram Singh Netaji INC31,49023.7712,054
54 Okhla 58.33Asif Muhammad KhanINC50,00436.34Irfanullah KhanAAP23,45917.0526,545
East Delhi District
55 Trilokpuri(SC) 69.10Raju DhinganAAP44,08238.93Sunil KumarBJP26,39723.3117,685
56 Kondli(SC) 67.75Manoj KumarAAP36.86334.17 Dushyant Kumar Gautam BJP29,37329.227,490
57 Patparganj 63.95 Manish Sisodia AAP50,21141.53Nakul BharadwajBJP38,73532.0411,476
58 Laxmi Nagar 64.70 Vinod Kumar Binny AAP43,05236.41 Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia INC35,30029.857,752
Shahdara District
59 Vishwas Nagar 67.09 Om Prakash Sharma BJP44,80138.00Naseeb SinghINC37,00231.387,799
East Delhi District
60 Krishna Nagar 67.78 Harsh Vardhan BJP69,22258.33Dr. Vinod Kumar MongaINC26,07221.9743,150
61 Gandhi Nagar 65.86 Arvinder Singh Lovely INC48,89748.47Ramesh Chand JainBJP31,93631.6616,961
Shahdara District
62 Shahdara 67.64 Jitender Singh Shunty BJP45,36442.96Dr Narender NathINC30,24728.6415,117
63 Seemapuri(SC) 72.63 Dharmender Singh AAP43,19937.76Veer Singh DhinganINC31,22327.2911,976
64 Rohtas Nagar 68.92 Jitender Mahajan BJP49,91641.34Mukesh HoodaAAP34,97328.9614,943
North East Delhi District
65 Seelampur 68.50 Chaudhary Mateen Ahmed INC46,45246.52Kaushal Kumar MishraBJP24,72424.7621,728
66 Ghonda 65.54 Sahab Singh Chauhan BJP47,53139.25Bheeshma SharmaINC35,59929.4011,932
Shahdara District
67 Babarpur 65.89 Naresh Gaur BJP34,18029.73Zakir KhanINC29,67336.234,507
North East Delhi District
68 Gokalpur(SC) 71.68Rajneet SinghBJP34,88827.24Surendra KumarIND32,96625.741,922
69 Mustafabad 71.76 Hasan Ahmed INC56,25038.24 Jagdish Pradhan BJP54,35436.951,896
70 Karawal Nagar 67.55 Mohan Singh Bisht BJP49,26234,64 Kapil Mishra AAP46,17932.473,083

Reactions

Former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said: "We accept our defeat and we will analyze what went wrong. We respect what the people of Delhi have decided and thank them for supporting us for last 15 years." [43]

Government formation

As no party won a majority of the 70 seats in the assembly, [44] if the necessary coalition government is not possible, Delhi would be put under president's rule until a new election is held within six months. However, the INC, BJP, and AAP have all said they would not seek alliances with each other. The other option was to try to bring in independents; though since there are not enough, the media speculated that the other option would be lured away MLAs from another party (the AAP being the most likely in their analysis). [45]

As the BJP won 31 seats, while its alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal won one seat, they gained a plurality and would have the first right to form a new government. However, they declined the offer from Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to form a new government citing an inability to obtain a majority. Jung then invited the Aam Aadmi Party to form the government. [46] Kejriwal wrote to BJP national leader Rajnath Singh and INC national leader Sonia Gandhi for clarification on 18 issues before seeking their support in forming a coalition.

On 9 December, Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley wrote a blog suggesting that Congress should support AAP to form government in Delhi. [47] The BJP did not reply and the INC agreed to 16 of the 18 issues and offered its outside support. On 14 December, BJP Chief Ministerial candidate Dr. Harsh Vardhan asked AAP to take congress support and form the government. [48] The AAP then sought public opinion through a variety of mediums [49] such as via community meetings, text messages and pamphlets [50] about whether or not it should take the support of the INC. [49] AAP then formed a minority government with outside support from the INC. [51] In a letter to the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, the AAP did not however mention that it has the support of the INC. [52] Jung then sent his recommendations to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Kejriwal was then sworn in as 7th Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December, leading the First Kejriwal cabinet, the youngest cabinet in Delhi ever. [53] M. S. Dhir was elected as the speaker of the legislative assembly on 3 January 2014. [54]

Amongst its first tasks, the AAP initiated a corruption response mechanism in a "durbar";[ citation needed ] it also retracted the FDI in multi-brand retail that the previous government had sanctioned. Kejriwal said that though this would give consumers more options it has been shown that it "leads to loss of jobs to a very large extent. There is huge unemployment in Delhi and the AAP government does not wish to increase this unemployment. Delhi is not prepared for FDI." [55] Yet he added that he was not against FDI by itself but that it needed to occur on a case-by-case basis. [56]

Government resignation

After 49 days, Kejriwal resigned as a chief minister following the failure of the introduction of Delhi's Jan Lokpal Bill in the assembly on 14 February 2014. President's rule was then imposed and the assembly was kept in suspended animation. [57] Fresh elections were scheduled for early 2015.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aam Aadmi Party, Punjab</span> Political party in India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi</span> Political party in India

Aam Aadmi Party Delhi or AAP Delhi is a state wing of Aam Aadmi Party. AAP became a state party in Delhi in 2013. The party contested its first election in Delhi in 2013 and was successful in winning 28 seats in a hung assembly. It got outside support from Indian National Congress and Arvind Kejriwal became the Chief Minister of Delhi but he resigned after 49 days due to differences with INC. In the following 2015 elections, AAP won 67 of the 70 seats in the assembly, limiting BJP at just 3 seats and INC with none and Kejriwal was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Delhi. AAP formed the government again in the subsequent 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election, winning 62 seats.

Durgesh Pathak is an Indian politician and Member of Legislative Assembly in Delhi. He is a senior member of the Aam Aadmi Party and Political Affairs Committee and National Executive In-charge of the party.

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