Delhi BJP candidates poll more votes than Cong\, AAP combined

Delhi BJP candidates poll more votes than Cong, AAP combined

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

The BJP would have swept even if the and the had joined hands as both the Opposition parties combined got less votes than the saffron party.

The BJP had bagged 46.4 per cent of the votes in 2014, winning all the seven seats.

In West Delhi, sitting polled in a total of 8,61,146 votes, almost over 3.23 lakh votes more than the combined total of the and the

In North West constituency, singer-turned-politician got 8,47,737 votes, almost 3.16 lakh votes more than the total votes his rivals from the Delhi's ruling party and the Congress got.

BJP received over 1.73 lakh votes more than what former minister and Congress veteran and AAP's Dilip Pandey polled together in the North East Delhi constituency.

Ramesh Bidhuri, the BJP's South Delhi candidate, polled in over 1.98 lakh votes more than the combined votes of the Congress' Vijender Singh and the AAP's Raghav Chadha.

Poll debutant Gautam Gambhir got over 1.71 lakh votes more than former Lovely and the AAP's Atishi, who ended up at the third spot.

Chandni Chowk, where is all set for a win, saw the incumbent polling over 87,000 votes than Congress veteran J P Agarwal and AAP's

The lead-up to the polls was filled with suspense as the and Congress were in talks for an alliance but in the end, the talks did not fructify with both the parties deciding to go solo in the elections.

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First Published: Thu, May 23 2019. 21:46 IST