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%, a decline of 4.65% from the previous assembly election in Delhi but 2.2% more than the 2019 Indian general election in Delhi. The term of the assembly elected in 2015 expired on 22 February 2020. 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.

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 SourceDelhi election – 668 candidates in fray www.indiatoday.inBSP to fight on all seats in Delhi election. The Hindustan Times colspan="6" Aam Aadmi PartyAAP releases list of 70 Candidates for Delhi Assembly election www.news18.com2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly Election Results www.placementstore.com Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Arvind Kejriwal 70 colspan="6" National Democratic AllianceBJP leaves 3 seats for JDU and LJP The First Post Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Manoj Tiwari 67 Shailendra Kumar 2 Sant Lal 1 + 4 Total70 colspan="6" United Progressive Alliance NDTV India Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Subhash Chopra 66 Pramod Tyagi4 Total70

List of Candidates + List Of Candidates ConstituencyAAPNDA+UPA No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Narela Sharad Chauhan Neeldaman Khatri Siddharth Kundu 2 Burari Sanjeev Jha Shailendra Kumar Pramod Tyagi 3 Timarpur Dilip Pandey Surinder Pal Singh (Bittoo) Amar Lata Sangwan 4 Adarsh Nagar Pawan Kumar Sharma Raj Kumar Bhatia Mukesh Kumar Goel 5 Badli Ajesh Yadav Vijay Kumar Bhagat Devender Yadav 6 Rithala Mohinder Goyal Manish Chaudhary Pradeep Kumar Pandey 7 Bawana (SC) Jai Bhagwan Ravinder Kumar Surender Kumar 8 Mundka Dharampal Lakra Azad Singh Naresh Kumar 9 Kirari Rituraj Govind Anil Jha Vats Md Riyazuddin Khan 10 Sultanpur Majra (SC) Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat Ram Chander Chawriya Jai Kishan 11 Nangloi Jat Raghuvinder Shokeen Suman Lata Mandeep Singh 12 Mangol Puri (SC) Rakhi Birla Karam Singh Karma Rajesh Lilothia 13 Rohini Rajesh Nama Bansiwala Vijender Gupta Sumesh Gupta 14 Shalimar Bagh Bandana Kumari Rekha Gupta J S Nayol 15 Shakur Basti Satyendra Kumar Jain S. C. Vats Dev Raj Arora 16 Tri Nagar Preeti Tomar Tilak Ram Gupta Kamal Kant Sharma 17 Wazirpur Rajesh Gupta Mahander Nagpal Harikishan Jindal 18 Model Town Akhilesh Pati Tripathi Kapil Mishra Akanksha Ola 19 Sadar Bazar Som Dutt Jai Parkash Satbir Sharma 20 Chandni Chowk Parlad Singh Sawhney Suman Kumar Gupta Alka Lamba 21 Matia Mahal Shoaib Iqbal Ravinder Gupta Mirza Javed Ali 22 Ballimaran Imran Hussain Lata Haroon Yusuf 23 Karol Bagh (SC) Vishesh Ravi Yogender Chandoliya Gourav Kumar 24 Patel Nagar (SC) Raaj Kumar Anand Pravesh Ratn Krishna Tirath 25 Moti Nagar Shiv Charan Goel Subhash Sachdeva Ramesh Popli 26 Madipur (SC) Girish Soni Kailash Gangwal Jai Prakash Panwar 27 Rajouri Garden Dhanwati Chandela Ramesh Khanna Amandeep Singh Sudan 28 Hari Nagar Raj Kumari Dhillon Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga Surinder Kumar Setia 29 Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh Rajiv Babbar Raminder Singh 30 Janakpuri Rajesh Rishi Ashish Sood Radhika Khera 31 Vikaspuri Mahinder Yadav Sanjay Singh Mukesh Sharma 32 Uttam Nagar Naresh Balyan Krishan Gahlot Shakti Kumar Bishnoi 33 Dwarka Vinay Mishra Parduymn Rajput Adarsh Shastri 34 Matiala Gulab Singh Yadav Rajesh Gahlot Sumesh Shokeen 35 Najafgarh Kailash Gahlot Ajeet Singh Kharkhari Sahab Singh 36 Bijwasan Bhupinder Singh Joon Sat Prakash Rana Parveen Rana 37 Palam Bhavna Gaur Vijay Pandit Nirmal Kumar Singh 38 Delhi Cantt Virender Singh Kadian Manish Singh Sandeep Tanwar 39 Rajinder Nagar Raghav Chadha R. P. Singh Rocky Tuseed 40 New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Sunil Kumar Yadav Romesh Sabharwal 41 Jangpura Praveen Kumar Impreet Singh Bakshi Tarvinder Singh Marwah 42 Kasturba Nagar Madan Lal Ravinder Choudhry Abhishek Dutt 43 Malviya Nagar Somnath Bharti Shailender Singh Neetu Verma Soin 44 R K Puram Parmila Tokas Anil Kumar Sharma Priyanka Singh 45 Mehrauli Naresh Yadav Kusum Khatri A. A. Mahender Chaudhary 46 Chhatarpur Kartar Singh Tanwar Brahm Singh Tanwar Satish Lohia 47 Deoli (SC) Prakash Jarwal Arvind Kumar Arvinder Singh Lovely 48 Ambedkar Nagar (SC) Ajay Dutt Khushiram Chunar Yaduraj Choudhary 49 Sangam Vihar Dinesh Mohaniya Shiv Charan Lal Gupta Poonam Azad 50 Greater Kailash Saurabh Bhardwaj Shikha Roy Sukhbir Singh Panwar 51 Kalkaji Atishi Marlena Dharambir Singh Shivani Chopra 52 Tughlakabad Sahi Ram Vikram Bidhuri Shubham Sharma 53 Badarpur Ram Singh Netaji Ramvir Singh Bidhuri Pramod Kumar Yadav 54 Okhla Amanatullah Khan Braham Singh Parvez Hashmi 55 Trilokpuri (SC) Rohit Kumar Mehraulia Kiran Vaidya Vijay Kumar 56 Kondli (SC) Kuldeep Kumar Raj Kumar Amrish Singh Gautam 57 Patparganj Manish Sisodia Ravinder Singh Negi Laxman Rawat 58 Laxmi Nagar Nitin Tyagi Abhay Verma Hari Dutt Sharma 59 Vishwas Nagar Deepak Singla Om Prakash Sharma Gurcharan Singh 60 Krishna Nagar S. K. Bagga Anil Goyal Ashok Kumar Walia 61 Gandhi Nagar Naveen Chaudhary Anil Kumar Bajpai Arvinder Singh Lovely 62 Shahdara Ram Niwas Goel Sanjay Goyal Dr. Narender Nath 63 Seemapuri (SC) Rajendra Pal Gautam Sant Lal Veer Singh Dhingan 64 Rohtas Nagar Sarita Singh Jitender Mahajan Vipin Sharma 65 Seelampur Abdul Rehman Kaushal Kumar Mishra Mateen Ahmed 66 Ghonda Shri Dutt Sharma Ajay Mahawar Bhisham Sharma 67 Babarpur Gopal Rai Naresh Gaur Anveeksha Jain 68 Gokalpur (SC) Surendra Kumar Ranjeet Singh S. P. Singh 69 Mustafabad Haji Yunus Jagdish Pradhan Ali Mehdi 70 Karawal Nagar Durgesh Pathak Mohan Singh Bisht Arbind Singh

NOTE: The NDA has endorsed LJP candidate from Seema Puri (63) (SC). However, the LJP has also fielded candidates in the following Assembly Constituencies—Kirari (9), Bijwasan (36), Laxmi Nagar (58), and Mustafabad (69)—who were not endorsed by the NDA alliance.

Manifestos

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party released a 10-point guarantee card on 19 January 2020. Alt URL

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.

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 transgender people 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. with 9 key points:

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 DatePolling AgencyLeadAAPBJPINC Others 2 February 2020 Patriotic Voter 58 11 1 0475 January 2020 News 24 48–53 15–20 0–2 028–38 TV9 Bharatvarsh 48–60 10–20 0–2 028–506 January 2020 ABP News – CVoter 59 8 3 051 IANS – CVoter 53–64 03–13 0–6 0-041–61 25 January 2020 Newsx-Polstrat 53–56 12–15 2–4 0-038–44 3 February 2020 Times Now – IPSOS 54–60 10–14 0–2 040–50 4 February 2020 Graphnile 56 12 0–2 044 5 February 2020 ABP News – CVoter 42–56 10–24 0–2 018–46

Exit Polls The exit polls were announced by agencies after the poll ends on 8 February 2020.Delhi election Exit Poll www.elections.in 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 DatePolling AgencyLeadAAPBJP+INC+ Others 8 February 2020 Jan Ki Baat55 15 0 040 India Today-Axis My India59-68 2–11 0 048–66 Patriotic Voter59 10 1 048 Times Now47 23 0 024 News X-Neta55 14 1 041 India News Nation55 14 1 041 Spick Media43-55 12 – 21 00–03 031–34 ABP News – CVoter51-65 3–17 0–2 030–58 Hamari Yojana55-60 10 – 15 00 0040–50

Results 62 8

Results by Party Alliance/ PartyPopular voteSeatsVotes%±ppContestedWon+/−%Aam Aadmi Party4,974,59253.57 0.737062 588.57rowspan="4" NDABharatiya Janata Party3,575,52938.51 6.21678 511.43Janata Dal (United)84,2630.91 0.912000Lok Janshakti Party32,7600.35 0.351000Total3,692,55239.777.47708 5 11.43 rowspan="3" UPAIndian National Congress395,9584.26 5.446600Rashtriya Janata Dal3,4630.04 0.04400Total399,4214.305.40700 0 Bahujan Samaj Party66,1410.71 0.597000Others109,5521.190.19388000NOTA43,1090.460.06Total9,285,798100.00 66870100Valid votes9,285,79899.89Invalid votes9,9950.11Votes cast / turnout9,295,79362.82Abstentions5,502,19737.18Registered voters14,797,990

Results by districts +DistrictSeatsAAPBJPNorth Delhi871Central Delhi770North West Delhi770West Delhi770New Delhi660South West Delhi770South East Delhi761South Delhi550East Delhi642Shahdara532North East Delhi532 Total70628

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