Delhi polls: Lone transgender candidate secures 85 votes in Kalkaji

Rajan Singh, the lone transgender candidate in the Delhi Assembly elections, secured 85 votes from the Kalkaji constituency, while 556 people opted for NOTA, according to Election Commission data.

Singh (27) contested on an Aam Janta Party (India) ticket from Kalkaji, where Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Chief Minister Atishi won the election, defeating BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri by a margin of 3,521 votes.

The number of None Of The Above (NOTA) votes in the constituency was relatively high, as Kalkaji had a total of 13 candidates.

Kalkaji has a total of 1,94,515 registered voters – 1,06,893 male voters, 87,617 female voters, and five transgender voters.

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The BJP staged a massive win in Delhi as it bagged 48 seats in the 70-member Assembly. AAP, which enjoyed a brute majority in the last two terms, was reduced to 22 seats, while the Congress failed to open its account for the third consecutive time.

AAP’s vote share declined by 10% as compared to its total vote share in the 2020 Assembly Elections when the party secured 62 seats. The party garnered a vote share of 43.57% as compared to 53.57% in the 2020 Assembly Election.