Election Results 2019: A Congress-AAP Alliance Would Have Proved Futile In Delhi
The BJP has won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.
The Bharatiya Janata Party won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi with such huge margins that even an alliance between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party wouldn’t have stalled the victory march.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party cornered more than 50 percent of the votes polled in all the parliamentary constituencies in the city state, according to the Election Commission’s website. Cricketer Gautam Gambhir won by more than 3.9 lakh votes and singer Hans Raj Hans defeated his nearest rival by 5.5 lakh votes.
The Aam Aadmi Party and the Indian National Congress had put an end to speculation in April by ruling out the prospect of an alliance to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Delhi. They nominated candidates for all seven seats in the capital, paving the way for a three-cornered contest.
Exit Polls
The poll of polls had predicted the BJP to hold fort in Delhi even as three exit polls indicated Congress winning one seat from the national capital—something they failed to do in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
What Happened In 2014?
In the last general election, the BJP had recorded a landslide win by emerging victorious in all the seven seats. AAP, which had won 67 of the 70 seats in the state’s assembly polls five months prior to the 2014 general election, could not win a single seat in the previous Lok Sabha polls.
Voter Turnout In 2019
The national capital recorded a voter turnout of 60.5 percent in the sixth and the penultimate phase of voting, down from 65.2 percent in previous Lok Sabha election.
Key Constituencies And Candidates
- BJP’s Harsh Vardhan, science and technology, and environment minister, won from the Chandni Chowk constituency by more than 2 lakh votes against Congress’ Jai Prakash Agarwal.
- BJP’s state-unit president Manoj Tiwari repeated the 2014 victory in the Delhi North East, but with an even bigger margin of over 3.6 lakh votes. Congress’s Sheila Dikshit trailed in the race.
- Gautam Gambhir emerged victorious in the East Delhi constituency by close to 4 lakh votes, beating Congress’s Arvind Singh Lovely and AAP’s Atishi Marlena.
- BJP’s MP Meenakshi Lekhi took a lead with more than 2.5 lakh votes, winning against Congress’ Ajay Maken in New Delhi.
- Hans Raj Hans of the BJP won by 5.5 lakh votes against Gugan Singh of the AAP.
- AAP’s Raghav Chadha lost to Ramesh Bidhuri of the BJP in South Delhi, who claimed victory by more than 3.5 lakh votes in the constituency.
- BJP’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma won with the biggest lead of 5.7 lakh votes in West Delhi, over Congress’ Mahabal Mishra.