Delhi is heading for the assembly elections on February 8. The ruling AAP is locked in a triangular contest with the BJP and the Congress but is favourite to retain the Union Territory.
AAP alone will be contesting from all 70 seats for the assembly polls while BJP will be contesting on 67 seats, while its ally, Janata Dal-United and Lok Janashakti Party contesting on the remaining three seats.
On the other hand, Congress will fight on 66 seats and its ally Rashtriya Janata Dal will fight on the remaining 4 seats.
Polling will be held at 13,750 polling stations. According to the poll body chief, total electors in the final electoral roll of the NCT of Delhi as on January 6, 2020, are 1,46,92,136.
The polls for all the seats will be held for all seats on February 8, 2020, and the results will be declared on February 11, 2020.
It may be noted that in 2015, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP (AAP) had a landmark victory after it secured 67 of the total 70 seats in the state legislature. Arvind Kejriwal became the Chief Minister toppling Congress' Sheila Dixit who held the chief ministerial post for 15 years since 1998. She was the longest-serving female chief minister of India.
In 2013 Delhi Assembly elections, AAP came to power despite BJP emerging as the single-largest party, winning 32 out of the 70 seats. AAP, the second-largest party formed the government with outside support from Congress. But on 14 February 2014, Kejriwal resigned from the Chief Minister post citing the failure of the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill in Delhi assembly following which President's rule was imposed in the Union Territory until fresh elections were held in 2015.
List of winners and losers in 2013, 2015 elections for all 70 constituencies in Delhi assembly elections:
Constituency | 2015 Winner | 2013 Winner | |||
Narela | Sharad Chauhan (AAP) | Neel Daman Khatri (BJP) | |||
Burari | Sanjeev Jha (AAP) | Sanjeev Jha (AAP) | |||
Timarpur | Pankaj Pushkar (AAP) | Harish Khanna (AAP) | |||
Adarsh Nagar | Pawan Kumar Sharma (AAP) | Ram Kishan Singhal (BJP) | |||
Badli | Ajesh Yadav (AAP) | Devender Yadav (INC) | |||
Rithala | Mohinder Goyal (AAP) | Kulwant Rana (BJP) | |||
Bawana | Ved Parkash ( ex-AAP member) | Gugan Singh (BJP) | |||
Mundka | Sukhbir Singh Dalal (AAP) | Rambir Shokeen (independent) | |||
Kirari | Rituraj Govind (AAP) | Anil Jha Vats (BJP) | |||
Sultanpur Majra | Sandeep Kumar (AAP) | Jai Kishan (INC) | |||
Nangloi Jat | Raghuvinder Shokeen (AAP) | Manoj Kumar Shokeen (BJP) | |||
Mangol Puri | Rakhi Birla (AAP) | Raj Kumar Chauhan (INC) | |||
Rohini | Vijender Gupta (BJP) | Rajesh Garg (AAP) | |||
Shalimar Bagh | Bandana Kumari (AAP) | Ravinder Nath Bansal (BJP) | |||
Shakur Basti | Satyender Kumar Jain (AAP) | Satyender Kumar Jain (AAP) | |||
Tri Nagar | Jitender Singh Tomar (AAP) | Nand Kishore Garg (BJP) | |||
Wazirpur | Rajesh Gupta (AAP) | Dr Mahender Nagpal (BJP) | |||
Model Town | Akhilesh Pati Tripathi (AAP) | Kanwar Karan Singh (INC) | |||
Sadar Bazar | Som Dutt (AAP) | Som Dutt (AAP) | |||
Chandni Chowk | Alka Lamba (AAP) | Parlad Singh Sawhney (INC) | |||
Matia Mahal | Asim Ahmed Khan (AAP) | Shoaib Iqbal (Janata Dal United) | |||
Ballimaran | Imran Hussain (AAP) | Haroon Yusuf (INC) | |||
Karol Bagh | Vishesh Ravi (AAP) | Surendra Pal Ratawal (BJP) | |||
Patel Nagar | Hazari Lal Chauhan (AAP) | Veena Anand (AAP) | |||
Moti Nagar | Shiv Charan Goel (AAP) | Subhash Sachdeva (BJP) | |||
Madipur | Girish Soni (AAP) | Mala Ram Gangwal (INC) | |||
Rajouri Garden | Jarnail Singh (AAP) | Manjinder Singh Sirsa (SAD) | |||
Hari Nagar | Jagdeep Singh (AAP) | Harsharan Singh Balli (BJP) | |||
Tilak Nagar | Jarnail Singh (AAP) | Jarnail Singh (AAP) | |||
Janakpuri | Rajesh Rishi (AAP) | Rajesh Rishi (AAP) | |||
Vikaspuri | Mahinder Yadav (AAP) | Mahinder Yadav (AAP) | |||
Uttam Nagar | Naresh Balyan (AAP) | Pawan Sharma (BJP) | |||
Dwarka | Adarsh Shastri (AAP) | Pradyuman Rajput (BJP) | |||
Matiala | Gulab Singh Yadav (AAP) | Rajesh Gehlot (BJP) | |||
Najafgarh | Kailash Gahlot (AAP) | Ajeet Singh Kharkhari (BJP) | |||
Bijwasan | Devinder Sehrawat (AAP) | Devinder Sehrawat (AAP) | |||
Palam | Bhavna Gaur (AAP) | Dharam Dev Solanki (BJP) | |||
Delhi Cantonment | Surinder Singh (AAP) | Karan Singh Tanwar (BJP) | |||
Rajinder Nagar | Vijender Garg Vijay (AAP) | R. P. Singh (BJP) | |||
New Delhi | Arvind Kejriwal (New Delhi) | Arvind Kejriwal (New Delhi) | |||
Jangpura | Praveen Kumar (AAP) | Maninder Singh Dhir (AAP) | |||
Kasturba Nagar | Madan Lal (AAP) | Madan Lal (AAP) | |||
Malviya Nagar | Somnath Bharti (AAP) | Somnath Bharti (AAP) | |||
RK Puram | Pramila Tokas (AAP) | Anil Kumar Sharma (BJP) | |||
Mehrauli | Naresh Yadav (AAP) | Parvesh Verma (BJP) | |||
Chhatarpur | Kartar Singh Tanwar (AAP) | Brahm Singh Tanwar (BJP) | |||
Deoli | Prakash Jarwal (AAP) | Prakash Jarwal (AAP) | |||
Ambedkar Nagar | Ajay Dutt (AAP) | Ashok Kumar Chauhan (AAP) | |||
Sangam Vihar | Dinesh Mohaniya (AAP) | Dinesh Mohaniya (AAP) | |||
Greater Kailash | Saurabh Bharadwaj (AAP) | Saurabh Bharadwaj (AAP) | |||
Kalkaji | Avtar Singh (AAP) | Harmeet Singh Kalka (BJP) | |||
Tugalakabad | Sahiram Pehelwan (AAP) | Ramesh Bidhuri (BJP) | |||
Badarpur | Narayan Dutt Sharma (AAP) | Ramvir Singh Bidhuri (BJP) | |||
Okhla | Amanatullah Khan (AAP) | Asif Muhammad Khan (INC) | |||
Trilokpuri | Raju Dhingan (AAP) | Sunil Kumar (BJP) | |||
Kondli | Manoj Kumar (AAP) | Manoj Kumar (AAP) | |||
Patparganj | Manish Sisodia (AAP) | Manish Sisodia (AAP) | |||
Laxmi Nagar | Vinod Kumar Binny (AAP) | Nitin Tyagi (AAP) | |||
Vishwas Nagar | Om Prakash Sharma (BJP) | Om Prakash Sharma (BJP) | |||
Krishna Nagar | Dr. Harsh Vardhan (BJP) | S. K. Bagga (AAP) | |||
Gandhi Nagar | Arvinder Singh Lovely (INC) | Anil Kumar Bajpai (AAP) | |||
Shahdara | Jitender Singh Shunty (BJP) | Ram Niwas Goel (AAP) | |||
Seemapuri | Dharmender Singh (AAP) | Rajendra Pal Gautam (AAP) | |||
Rohtas Nagar | Jitender Mahajan (BJP) | Sarita Singh (AAP) | |||
Seelampur | Chaudhary Mateen Ahmed (INC) | Mohammad Ishraque | |||
Ghonda | Sahab Singh Chauhan (BJP) | Shri Dutt Sharma (AAP) | |||
Babarpur | Naresh Gaur (BJP) | Gopal Rai (AAP) | |||
Mustafabad | Jagdish Pradhan (BJP) | Jagdish Pradhan (BJP) | |||
Karawal Nagar | Mohan Singh Bisht (BJP) | Kapil Mishra (Ex-AAP member) | |||
Gokalpur | Ranjeet Singh Kashyap (BJP) | Fateh Singh (AAP) |