2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

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All 70 seats in the Delhi Legislative Assembly 36 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	62.82% ( 4.65%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Arvind Kejriwal Manoj Tiwari Party AAP NDA Leader's seat New Delhi Did not contest Last election 67 3 Seats won 62 8 Seat change 5 5 Popular vote 4,974,592 3,692,552 Percentage 53.57% 39.77% Swing 0.71 6.57%
Structure of the Delhi Legislative Assembly after the election
Chief Minister before election Arvind Kejriwal AAP Elected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal AAP

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Delhi on 8 February 2020 to elect 70 members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. Voters turnout was recorded at 62.82%, ^[1] a decline of 4.65% from the previous assembly election in Delhi but 2.2% more than the 2019 Indian general election in Delhi. ^{[2] [3]} The term of the assembly elected in 2015 expired on 22 February 2020. ^{[4] [5]} The Aam Aadmi Party, led by Arvind Kejriwal won 62 seats to claim an absolute majority in the elections.

Background

The previous Assembly elections were held in February 2015. After the election, the Aam Aadmi Party formed the state government, with Arvind Kejriwal becoming Chief Minister.

Schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 6 January 2020 at 3:35 PM IST. ^[6]

Poll event	Schedule
Notification date	14 January 2020
Last date for filing nomination	21 January 2020
Scrutiny of nomination	22 January 2020
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	24 January 2020
Date of poll	8 February 2020
Date of counting of Votes	11 February 2020

Parties and alliances

Alliance	Parties		Number of candidates running
None		Aam Aadmi Party	70 [7] [8]
NDA [9]		Bharatiya Janata Party	67
		Janata Dal (United)	2
		Lok Janshakti Party	1
UPA [10]		Indian National Congress	66
		Rashtriya Janata Dal	4
None		Bahujan Samaj Party	70 [11]
		Others	388
Total			668 [12]

Manifestos

Aam Aadmi Party

The Aam Aadmi Party released a 10-point guarantee card on 19 January 2020. ^{[13] [14]}

• Jan Lokpal Bill
• Doorstep delivery of ration
• Pollution free Delhi
• 24 hour piped water
• Garbage free and debris free streets
• Pucca houses for slum-dwellers
• Free bus rides to students
• Underground cables to every household
• World class roads
• Legal protection of street vendors

Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party released its manifesto on 31 January 2020 with the following key points. ^[15]

• Housing for all by 2022
• Digitalization of government documents and e-libraries in courts
• Loans for women entrepreneurs
• 1000 crore fund for startup and innovation fund
• Special hostels for students and working professionals from the Northeast
• Resolve Jal Jeevan
• Redevelopment of Old Delhi and Chandni Chowk area
• Empowerment of transgenders
• Free sanitary napkins for women
• Special buses for college students
• Modification of existing infrastructure for divyang
• Double decker DTC buses and increase of frequency
• 24-hour helplines and self-defence training in schools for women
• 5% reservation for ex-servicemen in jobs and DDA flats
• Community centres for residential colonies

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress released its manifesto on 2 February 2020. ^[16] with 9 key points: ^[17]

• Strong Lokpal
• Bhagidari
• Yuva Swabhiman Yojna – Unemployment Allowances
• Yaari Startup Incubation Funds
• Homi Bhabha Research Fund
• 25% of budget spent on fighting pollution and improving transport
• Environment Ambassadors
• Jal Sanrakshan Board
• Rice Stubble to Energy Funds
• Bringing non-polluting industries back to Delhi

Surveys and polls

Opinion Polls

Publishing Date	Polling Agency					Lead
		AAP	BJP	INC	Others
2 February 2020	Patriotic Voter [18]	58	11	1	0	47 (10.6%)
5 January 2020	News 24 [19]	48–53	15–20	0–2	0	28–38
	TV9 Bharatvarsh [20]	48–60	10–20	0–2	0	28–50
6 January 2020	ABP News – CVoter [21]	59 (53%)	8 (26%)	3 (4.6%)	0 (16%)	51 (27%)
	IANS – CVoter [22]	53–64	03–13	0–6	0-0	41–61
25 January 2020	Newsx-Polstrat [23]	53–56	12–15	2–4	0-0	38–44
3 February 2020	Times Now – IPSOS [24]	54–60 (52%)	10–14 (34%)	0–2 (4%)	0 (10%)	40–50 (18%)
4 February 2020	Graphnile [25]	56	12	0–2	0	44
5 February 2020	ABP News – CVoter [26]	42–56 (45.6%)	10–24 (37.1%)	0–2 (4.4%)	0 (12.9%)	18–46 (8.6%)

Exit Polls

The exit polls were announced by agencies after the poll ends on 8 February 2020. ^[27] The exit polls were conducted on all 70 seats of Delhi Legislative Assembly and data was collected up to 4:00 PM. The voting ended at 6:00 PM officially.

Publishing Date	Polling Agency					Lead
		AAP	BJP+	INC+	Others
8 February 2020	Jan Ki Baat	55	15	0	0	40
	India Today-Axis My India	59-68	2–11	0	0	48–66
	Patriotic Voter	59	10	1	0	48
	Times Now	47	23	0	0	24
	News X-Neta	55	14	1	0	41
	India News Nation	55	14	1	0	41
	Spick Media [28]	43-55	12 – 21	00–03	0	31–34
	ABP News – CVoter	51-65	3–17	0–2	0	30–58
	Hamari Yojana [29]	55-60	10 – 15	00	00	40–50

Results

62	8
AAP	BJP

Vote Share of different parties in the election.

1. AAP (53.6%)
2. BJP (38.5%)
3. INC (4.26%)
4. JD(U) (0.91%)
5. BSP (0.71%)
6. LJP (0.35%)
7. RJD (0.04%)
8. NOTA (0.46%)
9. Other (1.19%)

Results by Party

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−	%
	Aam Aadmi Party			4,974,592	53.57	0.73	70	62 [30]	5	88.57
	NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	3,575,529	38.51	6.21	67	8	5	11.43
			Janata Dal (United)	84,263	0.91	0.91	2	0	0	0
			Lok Janshakti Party	32,760	0.35	0.35	1	0	0	0
		Total		3,692,552	39.77	7.47	70	8	5	11.43
	UPA		Indian National Congress	395,958	4.26	5.44	66	0		0
			Rashtriya Janata Dal	3,463	0.04	0.04	4	0		0
		Total		399,421	4.30	5.40	70	0		0
	Bahujan Samaj Party			66,141	0.71	0.59	70	0		0
	Others			109,552	1.19	0.19	388	0	0	0
	NOTA			43,109	0.46	0.06
Total				9,285,798	100.00		668	70		100
Valid votes				9,285,798	99.89
Invalid votes				9,995	0.11
Votes cast / turnout				9,295,793	62.82
Abstentions				5,502,197	37.18
Registered voters				14,797,990

Results by districts

District	Seats	AAP	BJP	INC	Others
North Delhi	8	7	1	0	0
Central Delhi	7	7	0	0	0
North West Delhi	7	7	0	0	0
West Delhi	7	7	0	0	0
New Delhi	6	6	0	0	0
South West Delhi	7	7	0	0	0
South East Delhi	7	6	1	0	0
South Delhi	5	5	0	0	0
East Delhi	6	4	2	0	0
Shahdara	5	3	2	0	0
North East Delhi	5	3	2	0	0
Total	70	62	8	0	0

Results by constituency

Assembly Constituency		Turnout (%)	Winner					Runner-up					Margin
#	Name		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
North Delhi District
1	Narela	65.34	Sharad Chauhan		AAP	86262	52.06	Neel Daman Khatri		BJP	68833	41.54	17429
Central Delhi District
2	Burari	61.48	Sanjeev Jha		AAP	139598	62.81	Shailendra Kumar		JD(U)	51440	23.14	88158
3	Timarpur	60.93	Dilip Pandey		AAP	71432	57.6	Surinder Pal Singh		BJP	47288	38.13	24144
North Delhi District
4	Adarsh Nagar	59.86	Pawan Kumar Sharma		AAP	46892	45.2	Raj Kumar Bhatia		BJP	45303	43.66	1589
5	Badli	63.61	Ajesh Yadav		AAP	69357	49.67	Vijay Kumar Bhagat		BJP	40234	28.81	29123
North West Delhi District
6	Rithala	59.80	Mohinder Goyal		AAP	87940	52.63	Manish Chaudhary		BJP	74067	44.33	13873
North Delhi District
7	Bawana(SC)	61.97	Jai Bhagwan		AAP	95715	48.38	Ravinder Kumar		BJP	84189	42.55	11526
North West Delhi District
8	Mundka	59.44	Dharampal Lakra		AAP	90293	53.78	Azad Singh		BJP	71135	42.37	19158
9	Kirari	63.36	Rituraj Govind		AAP	86312	49.77	Anil Jha Vats		BJP	80551	46.51	5654
10	Sultanpur Majra(SC)	63.88	Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat		AAP	74573	66.51	Ram Chander Chawriya		BJP	26521	23.65	48052
West Delhi District
11	Nangloi Jat	56.80	Raghuvinder Shokeen		AAP	74444	49.21	Suman Lata		BJP	62820	41.53	11624
North West Delhi District
12	Mangol Puri(SC)	66.48	Rakhi Birla		AAP	74154	58.53	Karam Singh Karma		BJP	44038	34.76	30116
North Delhi District
13	Rohini	63.31	Vijender Gupta		BJP	62174	53.67	Rajesh Nama 'Bansiwala'		AAP	49526	42.75	12648
North West Delhi District
14	Shalimar Bagh	61.80	Bandana Kumari		AAP	57707	49.41	Rekha Gupta		BJP	54267	46.46	3440
North Delhi District
15	Shakur Basti	67.87	Satyendra Kumar Jain		AAP	51165	51.6	S. C. Vats		BJP	43573	43.94	7592
North West Delhi District
16	Tri Nagar	66.55	Preeti Tomar		AAP	58504	52.38	Tilak Ram Gupta		BJP	47794	42.79	10710
North Delhi District
17	Wazirpur	60.50	Rajesh Gupta		AAP	57331	52.64	Dr. Mahender Nagpal		BJP	45641	41.91	11690
18	Model Town	59.54	Akhilesh Pati Tripathi		AAP	52665	52.58	Kapil Mishra		BJP	41532	41.46	11133
Central Delhi District
19	Sadar Bazar	66.80	Som Dutt		AAP	68790	55.71	Jai Parkash		BJP	43146	34.94	25644
20	Chandni Chowk	61.43	Parlad Singh Sawhney		AAP	50891	65.92	Suman Kumar Gupta		BJP	21307	27.6	29584
21	Matia Mahal	70.43	Shoaib Iqbal		AAP	67282	75.96	Ravinder Gupta		BJP	17041	19.24	50241
22	Ballimaran	71.64	Imran Hussain		AAP	65644	64.65	Lata		BJP	29472	29.03	36172
23	Karol Bagh(SC)	61.16	Vishesh Ravi		AAP	67494	62.23	Yogender Chandoliya		BJP	35734	32.95	31760
New Delhi District
24	Patel Nagar(SC)	61.00	Raaj Kumar Anand		AAP	73463	60.81	Pravesh Ratn		BJP	42528	35.2	30935
West Delhi District
25	Moti Nagar	61.94	Shiv Charan Goel		AAP	60622	53.83	Subhash Sachdeva		BJP	46550	41.34	14072
26	Madipur(SC)	65.79	Girish Soni		AAP	64440	56	Kailash Sankla		BJP	41721	36.26	22719
27	Rajouri Garden	62.01	Dhanwati Chandela		AAP	62212	55.7	Ramesh Khanna		BJP	39420	35.13	22972
28	Hari Nagar	61.86	Raj Kumari Dhillon		AAP	58087	53.67	Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga		BJP	37956	35.07	20131
29	Tilak Nagar	63.96	Jarnail Singh		AAP	62436	62.2	Rajiv Babbar		BJP	34407	34.28	28029
30	Janakpuri	65.85	Rajesh Rishi		AAP	67968	54.43	Ashish Sood		BJP	53051	42.48	14917
South West Delhi District
31	Vikaspuri	59.49	Mahinder Yadav		AAP	133898	55.95	Sanjay Singh		BJP	91840	38.38	42058
32	Uttam Nagar	64.12	Naresh Balyan		AAP	99622	54.57	Krishan Gahlot		BJP	79863	43.75	19759
33	Dwarka	62.21	Vinay Mishra		AAP	71003	52.08	Parduymn Rajput		BJP	56616	41.53	14387
34	Matiala	61.56	Gulab Singh		AAP	139010	53.2	Rajesh Gahlot		BJP	110935	42.45	28075
35	Najafgarh	64.93	Kailash Gahlot		AAP	81507	49.86	Ajeet Singh Kharkhari		BJP	75276	46.05	6231
36	Bijwasan	62.04	Bhupinder Singh Joon		AAP	57271	45.83	Sat Prakash Rana		BJP	56203	45.22	753
37	Palam	63.37	Bhavna Gaur		AAP	92775	59.15	Vijay Pandit		BJP	60010	38.26	32765
New Delhi District
38	Delhi Cantonment	45.48	Virender Singh Kadian		AAP	28971	49.17	Manish Singh		BJP	18381	31.19	10590
39	Rajinder Nagar	58.50	Raghav Chadha		AAP	59135	57.06	Sardar R. P. Singh		BJP	39077	37.7	20058
40	New Delhi	52.45	Arvind Kejriwal		AAP	46578	61.1	Sunil Kumar Yadav		BJP	25061	32.75	21697
South East Delhi District
41	Jangpura	60.66	Praveen Kumar		AAP	45133	50.88	Impreet Singh Bakshi		BJP	29070	32.77	16063
42	Kasturba Nagar	59.87	Madan Lal		AAP	37100	40.45	Ravinder Choudhry		BJP	33935	37	3165
South Delhi District
43	Malviya Nagar	58.92	Somnath Bharti		AAP	52043	57.97	Shailender Singh		BJP	33899	37.76	18144
New Delhi District
44	R K Puram	57.02	Pramila Tokas		AAP	47208	52.45	Anil Kumar Sharma		BJP	36839	40.93	10369
South Delhi District
45	Mehrauli	56.68	Naresh Yadav		AAP	62417	54.27	Kusum Khatri		BJP	44256	38.48	18161
46	Chhatarpur	64.59	Kartar Singh Tanwar		AAP	69411	49.13	Brahm Singh Tanwar		BJP	65691	46.5	3720
47	Deoli(SC)	63.53	Prakash Jarwal		AAP	92575	61.59	Arvind Kumar		BJP	52402	34.86	40173
48	Ambedkar Nagar(SC)	64.29	Ajay Dutt		AAP	62871	62.25	Khushiram Chunar		BJP	34544	34.2	28327
South East Delhi District
49	Sangam Vihar	62.20	Dinesh Mohaniya		AAP	75345	64.58	Shiv Charan Lal Gupta		JD(U)	32823	28.13	42522
New Delhi District
50	Greater Kailash	60.12	Saurabh Bhardwaj		AAP	60372	55.62	Shikha Roy		BJP	43563	40.13	16809
South East Delhi District
51	Kalkaji	57.51	Atishi Marlena		AAP	55897	52.28	Dharambir Singh		BJP	44504	41.63	11393
52	Tughlakabad	60.84	Sahiram		AAP	58905	54.51	Vikram Bidhuri		BJP	45147	41.77	13758
53	Badarpur	59.57	Ramvir Singh Bidhuri		BJP	90082	47.05	Ram Singh Netaji		AAP	86363	45.11	3719
54	Okhla	58.97	Amanatullah Khan		AAP	130367	66.03	Braham Singh		BJP	58540	29.65	71827
East Delhi District
55	Trilokpuri(SC)	66.67	Rohit Kumar Mehraulia		AAP	69947	52.36	Kiran		BJP	57461	43.01	12486
56	Kondli(SC)	67.30	Kuldeep Kumar		AAP	68348	53.11	Raj Kumar		BJP	50441	39.2	17907
57	Patparganj	61.52	Manish Sisodia		AAP	70163	49.33	Ravinder Singh Negi		BJP	66956	47.07	3207
58	Laxmi Nagar	61.74	Abhay Verma		BJP	65735	48.04	Nitin Tyagi		AAP	64855	47.4	880
Shahdara District
59	Vishwas Nagar	62.65	Om Prakash Sharma		BJP	65830	52.57	Deepak Singla		AAP	49373	39.42	16457
East Delhi District
60	Krishna Nagar	67.60	S.K. Bagga		AAP	72111	49.1	Anil Goyal		BJP	68116	46.38	3995
61	Gandhi Nagar	62.69	Anil Kumar Bajpai		BJP	48824	42.64	Naveen Chaudhary		AAP	42745	37.33	6079
Shahdara District
62	Shahdara	66.22	Ram Niwas Goel		AAP	62103	49.53	Sanjay Goyal		BJP	56809	45.31	5294
63	Seemapuri(SC)	68.48	Rajendra Pal Gautam		AAP	88392	65.82	Sant Lal		LJP	32284	24.04	56108
64	Rohtas Nagar	67.83	Jitender Mahajan		BJP	73873	51.94	Sarita Singh		AAP	60632	42.63	13241
North East Delhi District
65	Seelampur	71.42	Abdul Rehman		AAP	72694	56.05	Kaushal Kumar Mishra		BJP	35774	27.58	36920
66	Ghonda	63.94	Ajay Mahawar		BJP	81797	57.55	Shri Dutt Sharma		AAP	53427	37.59	28370
Shahdara District
67	Babarpur	65.77	Gopal Rai		AAP	84776	59.39	Naresh Gaur		BJP	51714	36.23	33062
North East Delhi District
68	Gokalpur(SC)	70.92	Surendra Kumar		AAP	88452	53.22	Ranjeet Singh		BJP	68964	41.5	19488
69	Mustafabad	70.75	Haji Yunus		AAP	98850	53.2	Jagdish Pradhan		BJP	78146	42.06	20704
70	Karawal Nagar	67.55	Mohan Singh Bisht		BJP	96721	50.59	Durgesh Pathak		AAP	88498	46.29	8223

Aftermath

Third Kejriwal ministry of the Delhi government was formed on 16 February 2020, led by Kejriwal as Delhi's chief minister for a third time at Ramlila Maidan. ^[31]

Bypolls to Delhi (2020-2025)

Date	S.No	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
23 June 2022	39	Rajinder Nagar	Raghav Chadha		Aam Aadmi Party	Durgesh Pathak		Aam Aadmi Party

See also

• India portal
• Politics portal

• 2020 elections in India
• 2019 Indian general election in Delhi
• 2017 Municipal Corporation of Delhi election

External links

• Aam Aadmi Party Delhi assembly election 2020 MANIFESTO

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