Delhi Elections
The BJP swept all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on Tuesday, with its North-West Delhi candidate Yogender Chandoliya leading by a margin of over 2.8 lakh votes, according to trends on the Election Commission (EC) website.
The polling in all the seven seats took place on May 25.
Here is a run-down:
– Delhi constituencies are considered bellwether, giving an indication/trend on the national level.
– The BJP swept all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on Tuesday.
– The BJP has won Delhi in all but two national elections since 1989. The party has only failed to win a majority of the city’s parliamentary seats in 2004 and 2009. On both those occasions, the party also lost overall nationally.
– BJP’s North-West Delhi candidate Yogender Chandoliya won by a margin of over 2.8 lakh votes
– Three of BJP’s candidates are leading by a margin of over a lakh votes.
– BJP’s Praveen Khandelwal was initially trailing Congress’ Jai Prakash Agarwal in the Chandni Chowk seat but later moved ahead to secure a lead of 45,376 votes, the EC data showed.
– BJP’s North-East Delhi candidate Manoj Tiwari, who was pitted against the Congress’ Kanhaiya Kumar, was leading by a margin of 1,01,000 votes.
– BJP’s Bansuri Swaraj — daughter of late veteran leader Sushma Swaraj — was in the lead by a margin of 66,442 votes.
– The BJP was in a direct contest with the Congress-AAP alliance in the national capital.
– The party had won all seven seats in Delhi in the 2014 and the 2019 general elections.
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