Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015

7 February 2015
All 70 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi 36 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   100px 100px Leader Arvind Kejriwal Kiran Bedi Ajay Maken Party AAP BJP INC Leader's seat New Delhi Krishna Nagar (lost) Sadar Bazar (lost) Last election 28 seats 32 seats 8 seats Seats won 67 3 0 Seat change 39 29 8 Popular vote 48,79,127 28,91,510 8,67,027 Percentage 54.3% 32.3% 9.7% Swing 24.8% 0.8% 14.9%
300px Map of Delhi showing results of the 2015 Vidhan Sabha election
Chief Minister before election President's rule Republic of India Elected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal AAP

A Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 7 February 2015 to elect 70 members of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. The results were announced on 10 February 2015. The Aam Aadmi Party secured an absolute majority in the assembly, winning 67 of the 70 seats.

Background

In the 2013 Delhi state elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (along with its pre-poll ally Shiromani Akali Dal) emerged as the single-largest party, winning 32 out of the 70 seats. However they fell short of an outright majority and therefore were unable to form the government. This led the then Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung to invite the Aam Aadmi Party, the second largest party after the BJP, to form the government. On 28 December 2013, AAP formed the state government after taking outside support from the Indian National Congress. AAP's leader Arvind Kejriwal, who defeated the incumbent chief minister Sheila Dixit, became the 7th chief minister of Delhi. However, on 14 February 2014 (after 49 days of rule), Arvind Kejriwal resigned from his post citing the reason as his government's inability to table the Jan Lokpal Bill in Delhi Assembly for discussion due to stiff opposition from other political parties in the house.

Delhi remained thereafter under President's Rule for about a year. On 4 November 2014, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung recommended the Union Cabinet the dissolution of Delhi assembly and conduct fresh elections. On 12 January 2015, the Election Commission of India announced that state assembly elections would be held on 7 February 2015 with results being announced on 10 February 2015.

Schedule and electorate

The election commission announced the schedule for the elections on 12 January 2015. Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs was used in 2 assembly seats in Delhi elections- New Delhi and Delhi Cantt.

Date of notification	14 January 2015	Wednesday
Last date for nomination	21 January 2015	Wednesday
Date of scrutiny	22 January 2015	Thursday
Last date of withdrawal	24 January 2015	Saturday
Date of poll	7 February 2015	Saturday
Date of counting	10 February 2015	Tuesday
Election Complete	12 February 2015	Thursday

Voter statistics

Source
Total	13,309,078
Male	7,389,088
Female	5,919,127
Third Gender	862
Service	5,110
Non Resident Indians	27

Campaign

Safety of women, corruption, water problems and price rises were the main issues in the election.

Aam Aadmi Party

AAP started campaigning in Delhi in November 2014 and inducted several first-time candidates, with as many as 27 out of 70 MLA candidates. AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal is the chief minister candidate and contesting the elections from the New Delhi seat again. Other known names and prominent faces in their candidate list are Jarnail Singh, Surinder Singh (commando), former Transport Minister for Delhi Saurabh Bhardwaj, former Education Minister Manish Sisodia, and former Law Minister Somnath Bharti.

The rallies and roadshows of Arvind Kejriwal were a great success, drawing large enthusiastic crowds. His nomination rally-cum-roadshow drew massive crowd and included flash mobs, slogans and chant of "5 Saal Kejriwal" song. AAP has consistently targeted the issues of corruption, security, education, environmental pollution, employment opportunities for youth and making Delhi a world class city.

Kejriwal's statement "Paise lekar sting kar lo" created controversies by asking volunteers to take bribes from other parties and do a sting. Kejriwal claimed that BJP had been trying to bribe AAP volunteers. The situation rose The Election Commission of India, which issued notice to Kejriwal to desist from breaking the laws governing the model code of conduct for elections in India. The Delhi court finally allowed Kejriwal to put forth his plea on the matter.

BJP targeted AAP and Kejriwal in a series of controversial negative newspaper ads. AAP claimed that one of these ads made a derogatory reference to Kejriwal's caste, while another one with a garlanded portrait of Anna Hazare signified Hazare's death. AAP threatened to complain about these ads to the Election Commission of India.

Noted music composer and party sympathizer Vishal Dadlani composed a song "Panch Saal Kejriwaal" (5 years of Kejriwal Government) in December 2014 to give a boost to AAP's campaign. The song was seen used in flash mobs, roadshows and rallies and was well received. AAP's campaign included advertisements on bus stops, bill boards and in the Delhi Metro, mostly focusing on Blue and Yellow Lines. To save costs ads were put up only on one side of the Metro.

The last days of the campaign saw TV actors Ayub Khan and Smita Bansal joining AAP. The AAP strategy for campaigning included flash mobs, street plays (nukkad natak), human banners, posters and pamphlets in auto-rickshaws.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee tweeted on 5 February "My request to all of you in Delhi to please vote for AAP. For the greater need of the country and development in Delhi". TMC has stringently criticized BJP's central government in recent past. Also CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said in an interview, "15 seats are being contested jointly by Left parties in the Delhi polls. Rest of the 55 seats, our party has decided that it will ask our party members and voters to vote for the AAP. Most of the other left parties are also of the same view".

Bharatiya Janata Party

On 10 January 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the BJP's campaign for the Delhi assembly polls by holding an Abhinandan rally at the Ramlila Maidan. With some recent corruption allegations on BJP-Delhi unit head Satish Upadhyay, and on speculation of increasing internal fights for CM position between several big leaders liker Jagdeesh Mukhi, Vijay Goel and Satish Upadhyay, on 15 January 2015, BJP added Kiran Bedi as a prominent face to lead Delhi Campaign. Within 4 days, on 19 January, India's first woman IPS officer, anti-corruption activist and Magsaysay awardee Kiran Bedi was announced by the BJP as their candidate for chief minister in Delhi.

Analysts questioned BJP's decision to project Kiran Bedi as the party's CM candidate, when two opinion polls indicated that AAP had gained ground over BJP after the announcement of her candidature. Kiran Bedi was seen leaving news interviews and even questions of her being the first woman IPS and her role in towing Indra Gandhi's convoy car were raised. Her induction led to internal rifts in the party, but the party president Amit Shah defended the decision. On 2 February, Kiran Bedi's manager announced his resignation blaming her "dictatorial attitude", but then withdrew the resignation and apologized on the same day.

Key party strategist Arun Jaitley was tasked with bringing together the BJP's campaign efforts, with regular meetings at the Delhi BJP office, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing four rallies. Also 11 central ministers and 17 lawmakers of the party were deployed in the campaign for Delhi. Human Resource Minister Smriti Irani and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj hit the campaign trail addressing several rallies in South and North West Delhi. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, held a public meeting in Bijwasan area of South West Delhi. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is scheduled to campaign for BJP Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Chemicals and Fertiliser Minister Ananth Kumar have been making rounds of Delhi BJP office for the last couple of days. As of 29 January,Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has brought in 22 of its top ministers at the Centre and 17 MPs to take charge of the campaign. According to another source " around 58 Union ministers and MPs took charge of Delhi constituencies. More than 70 MPs have been assigned to oversee preparations for the Feb. 7 polls to the 70-member Assembly," said a senior BJP leader. Shazia Ilmi a member of AAP who has joined BJP saying BJP stands for good governance and development.

BJP actively used the media for their campaign, and released a series of newspaper advertisements targeting AAP's CM candidate Arvind Kejriwal.

During the last phases of the campaign rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi got poor turnouts and the BJP Delhi state unit was seen complaining about appointing Kiran Bedi as the CM candidate.

BJP had prepoll alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal, whose candidates contested four seats: three on BJP's symbol and one on SAD's own symbol.

Indian National Congress

On 13 January 2015, Ajay Maken was announced as the head of the Congress campaign committee. Maken is also the party's chief minister candidate. On 19 January, Maken released a booklet titled 49 dino ki ultee chaal, Dilli hui behal listing Kejriwal's U-turns and misgovernance during his 49-day government.

Other parties

Other parties such as Bahujan Samaj Party, Poorvanchal Rashtriya Congress and Janata Dal are also part of the campaign but none have enough candidates to get a majority vote to form government on their own.

Manifestos

Aam Aadmi Party

AAP released its manifesto on 31 January 2015. Highlights of manifesto

• Resolved to legislate the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill after coming to power.
• Legislate the Swaraj Act to devolve power directly to the people
• Acting within constitutional framework AAP will use its moral and political authority to push for full statehood for Delhi
• Will keep its promise of reducing electricity bills by half.
• Conduct a comprehensive performance audit of discoms by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
• Put Delhi's own power station at the pithead and comprehensively solve Delhi's electricity problem in long run.
• AAP reiterates the 2013 Delhi manifesto promise of providing consumers right to choose between electricity providers.
• Facilitate a phased shift to renewable and alternate sources of energy like Solar Energy.
• Provide Water as a Right. It will provide access to clean drinking water to all of Delhi at an affordable price
• Ensure free lifeline water of up to 20 kiloliters (20,000 liters) to every household per month.
• Provide universal access to potable water to all its citizens of Delhi at a sustainable and affordable price.
• Ensure firm implementation of the HC order that entitles Delhi to extra raw water from Haryana in the Munak canal
• Preserve and replenish local and decentralized water resources to augment Delhi's water resources.
• Committed to clamping down on Delhi's powerful water mafia working under the patronage of political leaders.
• Several steps will be taken to revive the Yamuna including sewer treatment and control affluent discharge.

Bharatiya Janata Party

On 29 January 2015, the party announced that they would release a vision document before the elections, as full statehood for Delhi was a topic of debate in the party. Although such is the case, beginning 28 January 2015, the BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi has initiated a series of tweets with hashtag #KiransBlueprint detailing her plans for improving Delhi. It has been said that no manifesto by BJP has provided AAP with a "much needed ammunition" in their Election Campaign

On February 3, 2015, the BJP's vision document was released publicly. It included 270 points and 35 areas of focus, which included the following:

• 100% transparency
• Unimpeachable integrity
• Police accountability
• Maximum measurability
• Fiscal prudence
• Zero tolerance to Corruption
• Focus on youth affairs
• Electricity & Water, Cleanliness
• Education & Skill Development
• Environment

Indian National Congress

Synopsis of Manifesto

• Vows to lower electricity charges in the national capital.
• Rs.1.5/unit rate for 0–200 unit users.
• 50 percent rebate for above 200 unit users.
• Promises to provide free wi-fi facility across Delhi.
• A uniform pension scheme of Rs. 2000 will be started.
• Assure rate cut in power tariffs
• Waive off old water supply bills.
• Government internet cafes in all assembly seats
• Committed to Yamuna cleaning
• Free sewer connection to the people
• Public transports would also have free wi-fi.
• All hospitals would be equipped with modern diagnosis facilities.
• Service assurance for all government employees. Regularization policies for government teachers and other government servants would follow.
• Metro extension is certainly our commitment
• Salary hike for anganwadi workers is also in agenda.
• Women safety is our concern. civil defense and home guard recruitment will be increased
• In addition to this, women’s toilets are on our agenda.
• CCTV to be installed in public transport is another focus of the party.

Contestants

Nominations

The Election Commission cancelled the nomination of 230 candidates during the scrutiny of papers and 693 candidates were deemed valid to contest the polls.

List of contestants of major parties

Bold signifies the winner

Constituency No.	Constituency Name	BJP + SAD*	AAP	INC
1	Narela	Neeldaman Khatri	Sharad Chauhan	Praveen Kum Bhugra
2	Burari	Gopal Jha	Sanjeev Jha	Jile Singh Chauhan
3	Timarpur	Smt. Rajni Abbi	Pankaj Pushkar	Surender Pal Singh
4	Adarsh Nagar	Ram Kishan Singhal	Pawan Kumar Sharma	Mukesh Goel
5	Badli	Rajesh Yadav	Ajesh Yadav	Devender Yadav
6	Rithala	Kulwant Rana	Mahindra Goel	Jagdish Yadav
7	Bawana	Gugan Singh	Ved Prakash	Surender Kumar
8	Mundka	Master Azad Singh	Sukhbir Dalal	Rita Shokeen
9	Kirari	Anil Jha Vats	Rituraj Jha	Pratyush Kant
10	Sultan Pur Majra	Prabhu Dayal Sai	Sandeep	Jai Kishan
11	Nangloi Jat	Manoj Shokeen	Raghuvendra Shaukeen	Dr. Bijender Singh
12	Mangol Puri	Surjeet	Rakhi Bidlan	Raj Kumar Chauhan
13	Rohini	Vijendra Gupta	Charanji Lal Gupta	Sukhbir Sharma
14	Shalimar Bagh	Smt. Rekha Gupta	Bandana Kumari	Sulekh Agarwal
15	Shakur Basti	Dr. S. C. Vats	Satyendra Kumar Jain	Chaman Lal Sharma
16	Tri Nagar	Nand Kishor Garg	Jitender Tomar	Anil Bhardwaj
17	Wazirpur	Mahendra Nagpal	Rajesh Gupta	Hari Shankar Gupta
18	Model Town	Vivek Garg	Akhilesh Pati Tripathi	Kanwar Karan Singh
19	Sadar Bazar	Praveen Jain	Som Dutt	Ajay Maken
20	Chandni Chowk	Suman Kumar Gupta	Alka Lamba	Prahlad S. Sawhney
21	Matia Mahal	Anjum Dahalwi	Asim Ahmed Khan	Shoaib Iqbal
22	Ballimaran	Shyam Morwal	Imran Hussain	Haroon Yusuf
23	Karol Bagh	Yogendra Chandolia	Vishesh Ravi	Madan Khorwal
24	Patel Nagar	Smt. Krishna Tirath	Hazari Lal Chauhan	Rajesh Lilothia
25	Moti Nagar	Subhash Sachdeva	Shiv Charan Goyal	Raj Kumar Maggo
26	Madipur	Rajkumar Phulwaria	Girish Soni	Malaram Gangwal
27	Rajouri Garden	Manjinder Singh Sirsa*	Jarnail Singh	Dhanvanti Chandela
28	Hari Nagar	Avtar Singh Hit*	Jagdeep Singh	CP Mittal
29	Tilak Nagar	Rajeev Babbar	Jarnail Singh	Dhuli Chand Lohia
30	Janakpuri	Prof. Jagdish Mukhi	Rajesh Rishi	Suresh Kumar
31	Vikaspuri	Sanjay Singh	Mahendra Yadav	Nand Kishore Sehrawat
32	Uttam Nagar	Pawan Sharma	Naresh Balyan	Mukesh Sharma
33	Dwarka	Pradyuman Rajput	Adarsh Shastri	Mahabal Mishra
34	Matiala	Rajesh Gehlot	Gulab Singh	Sumesh Shokeen
35	Najafgarh	Ajeet Kharkhari	Kailash Gehlot	Jai Kishan Sharma
36	Bijwasan	Sat Prakash Rana	Devendra Sehrawat	Vijay Singh Lochav
37	Palam	Dharamdev Solanki	Bhavna Gaur	Madan Mohan
38	Delhi Cantonment	Karan Singh Tanwar	Surinder Singh	Sandeep Tanwar
39	Rajinder Nagar	Sardar R. P. Singh	Vijender Garg	Brahm Yadav
40	New Delhi	Nupur Sharma	Arvind Kejriwal	Kiran Walia
41	Jangpura	Maninder Singh Dhir	Praveen Kumar	Tarwinder S. Marwah
42	Kasturba Nagar	Ravindra Choudhary	Madan Lal	Neeraj Basoya
43	Malviya Nagar	Dr. Nandani Sharma	Somnath Bharti	Dr. Yoganand Shastri
44	R K Puram	Anil Sharma	Pramila Tokas	Leeladhar Bhatt
45	Mehrauli	Smt. Sarita Chaudhary	Naresh Yadav	Satbir Singh
46	Chhatarpur	Brahm Singh Tanwar	Kartar Singh Tanwar	Bairam Tanwar
47	Deoli	Arvind Kumar	Prakash Jarwal	Rajesh Chauhan
48	Ambedkar Nagar	Ashok Chauhan	Ajay DuttU	Ch. Prem Singh
49	Sangam Vihar	H. C. L. Gupta	Dinesh Mohania	Vishan Swaroop Agarwal
50	Greater Kailash	Rakesh Gulia	Saurabh Bhardwaj	Sharmistha Mukherjee
51	Kalkaji	Harmeet Singh Kalka*	Avtar Singh	Subhash Chopra
52	Tughlakabad	Vikram Vidhuri	Sahi Ram	Sachin Bidhuri
53	Badarpur	Rambir Vidhuri	ND Sharma	Ram Singh Netaji
54	Okhla	Brahm Singh Vidhuri	Amanathullah khan	Asif Muhammad Khan
55	Trilokpuri	Smt. Kiran Vaidhya	Raju Dhingan	Brahm Pal
56	Kondli	Hukum Singh	Manoj Kumar	Amrish Singh Gautam
57	Patparganj	Vinod Kumar Binny	Manish Sisodia	Anil Kumar
58	Laxmi Nagar	B. B. Tyagi	Nitin Tyagi	Dr. A. K. Walia
59	Vishwas Nagar	O. P. Sharma	Atul Gupta	Naseeb Singh
60	Krishna Nagar	Dr. Kiran Bedi	SK Bagga	Bansi Lal
61	Gandhi Nagar	Jitendra Choudhary	Anil Bajpai	Surendra Kumar
62	Shahdara	Jatinder Singh Shunty*	Ram Niwas Goel	Dr. Narender Nath
63	Seemapuri	Karam Vir Chandel	Rajendra Gautam	Veer Singh Dhingan
64	Rohtas Nagar	Jitendra Mahajan	Sarita Singh	Vipin Sharma
65	Seelampur	Sanjay Jain	Haji Ishraq (Bhure Bhai)	Ch. Mateen Ahmed
66	Ghonda	Sahib Singh Chouhan	SD Sharma	Bheesham Sharma
67	Babarpur	Naresh Gaur	Gopal Rai	Zakir Khan
68	Gokalpur	Ranjeet Kashyap	Fateh Singh	Rinku
69	Mustafabad	Jagdish Pradhan	Haji Yunus	Hasan Ahmed
70	Karawal Nagar	Mohan Singh Bisht	Kapil Mishra	Satanpal

Analysis of Affidavits

Delhi Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 673 candidates who are contesting in the 2015 Delhi Assembly Elections. There are 70 political parties fielding candidates in these elections. In the previous elections in 2013 there were 77 political parties that contested and in 2008 there were 68 political parties that were in the fray. There are 66 (10%) female candidates out of 673 candidates contesting this year. In 2013 there were 71(9%) female candidates out of 810 candidates in the fray and in 2008 there were 81 (9%) female candidates out of 875 candidates contesting the elections.

• 114 (17%) Candidates with Criminal Cases
• 230 (34%) Crorepati Candidates
• 74 (11%) Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases
• Rs. 33.2 million Average Assets of Candidates.

Opinion polls

Number of seats (70)

Survey	Date	Sample size	Constituencies covered	AAP	BJP	INC	Others	Ref(s)
ABP News-Nielsen	5–7 November 2014	6528	35	28	36	5	1
NewsX–CVoter	12 November 2014	2447	?	26	37	6	2
Economic Times–TNS	21 Nov-5 Dec 2014	7113	35	22–25	43–47	0–3	0
ABP News–Nielsen	4–8 December 2014	6409	35	17	45	7	1
India Today–CICERO Wave 1	18 December 2014	4273	70	28±3	37±3	4±1	1±1
TV24 News India	25 December 2014	8200	70	39	23	5	3
India Today–CICERO Wave 2	12 January 2015	4459	70	25–30	34–40	3–5	0–2
India TV-CVoter	12 January 2015	4238	?	29	35	5	1
ABP News–Nielsen	15 January 2015	6414	70	28	34	8	0
News Nation	11–15 January 2015	3195	?	33±2	31±2	5±1	1±1
Zee News-Taleem	10–16 January 2015	4200	35	29	37	4	0
India TV-CVoter	18–24 January	1306	?	28	37	5	0
The Week-IMRB	22–24 January 2015	4055	70	29±2	36±2	4±1	1±1
ABP News–Nielsen	24–25 January 2015	6396	35	35	29	6	0
Hindustan Times-C fore	10-19 and 24–27 January 2015	7147	?	31–36	31–36	2–7	0
India TV-CVoter	25–31 January	10862	?	31	36	2	1
Economic Times-TNS	25–31 January 2015	3260	16	38±2	30±2	2±1	0
Hindustan Times-C fore	27 January - 1 February 2015	3578	?	36-41	27-32	2-7	0-5
AAP (internal)	31 January - 1 February 2015	3188	35	51±6	15±5	4±2	-
NDTV Poll of Opinion Polls (based on C fore, TNS and Nielsen)	3 February 2015	-	-	37	29	4	0
India Today Group-Cicero	3 February 2015	3972	?	42±4	22±3	5±2	1±1
Times Now Poll of Polls (based on C fore, TNS, Nielsen, CVoter and IMRB)	3 February 2015	-	-	34	32	2	4
Data Mineria	4 February 2015	?	?	27	36	7	0
News Nation	31 January - 4 February 2015	3000	?	32±2	33±2	4±1	0-1
Zee News-Taleem	4 February 2015	?	?	32±2	34±2	4±1	0
Total TV news	4 February 2015	36539	70	49±4	21±4	2	0
Research and Development Initiative	5 February 2015	21000	70	23±2	43±2	2±2	0

Vote share

Survey	Date	AAP	BJP	INC	Others	Ref(s)
TV24 news Chandigarh	28 December 2014	53%	32%	9%	6%
ABP News–Nielsen	10 November 2014	38%	38%	22%	14%
NewsX–CVoter	12 November 2014	39%	44%	11%	6%
ABP News–Nielsen	12 December 2014	27%	38%	24%	11%
India Today–CICERO Wave 1	18 December 2014	36%	39%	16%	9%
The Economic Times–TNS	21 Nov-5 Dec 2014	40%	46%	N/A	N/A
TotalTV News	23 December 2014	48%	40%	8%	4%
India Today–CICERO Wave 2	12 January 2015	36%	40%	16%	8%
India TV-CVoter	12 January 2015	40%	42%	11%	7%
ABP News–Nielsen	15 January 2015	31%	35%	24%	10%
News Nation	11–15 January 2015	39%	35%	15%	5%
ABP News–Nielsen	19 January 2015	46%	45%	8%	1%
Zee News-Taleem	10–16 January 2015	35%	44%	14%	7%
India TV news- C Voter	18–24 January	40%	45%	10%	5%
ABP News–Nielsen snap poll	24–25 January 2015	50%	41%	9%	0%
Hindustan Times-C fore	10-19 and 24–27 January 2015	38.4%	38%	14.5%	9.1%
Hindustan Times-C fore	27 January - 1 February 2015	40%	37%	15%	8%
Total TV news	20 January - 3 February 2015	47.63%	35.57%	13.68%	3.12%

Line Chart showing seats as per opinion polls

  AAP

  BJP

  Cong

−

  Others

Voting

Polling took place at 12,177 polling stations. As many as 95,000 government officials were deployed for election duty. 16,000 control units 20,000 ballot units were to be used for polling. As for security inside polling booths, 1,200 micro observers oversaw the entire procedure and also reported technical problems in EVM operations. According to the Delhi CEO, a total of 43,235 postal ballots were received in comparison to 41,095 during the Assembly Elections 2013.

A record 67.08% turnout was registered on the election day. The voter turnout was 1.22% higher than 65.86% polling in 2013 Assembly polls. The polling percentage was 65.07% in the Lok Sabha polls in April, 2014.

Allegations on Breaking Code of Conduct

BJP’s candidate Surjeet Kumar from Mangolpuri was detained on night before Election following allegations of liquor distribution. As per the reports, he was caught distributing liquor to people around 3.30 am. Liquor bottles recovered from a car purportedly owned by him.

AAP lodged a complaint to Election Commission against Kiran Bedi for violating model code of conduct in Krishna Nagar Constituency by holding pad-yatra and asking for votes on the day of Election.

Exit polls

Survey	Date					Ref(s)
		AAP	BJP	INC	Others
India TV-C Voter	7/02/2015	35-43	25-33	0-2	0
India Today-Cicero	7/02/2015	38–46	19–27	3–5	0-2
ABP-Nielsen	7/02/2015	43	26	1	0
Today's Chanakya	7/02/2015	48	22	0	0
Axis	7/02/2015	53	17	0	0
News Nation	7/02/2015	41-45	23-27	1-3	0-1
Data Mineria	7/02/2015	31	35	4	0

Result

On 10 February 2015, counting was held. AAP won 67 seats and BJP just 3. Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi lost to Aam Aadmi Party candidate SK Bagga in the Krishna Nagar constituency by 2277 votes. Congress party candidates lost deposits in 63 of the 70 seats, including senior leaders Ajay Maken, Yoganand Shastri, Kiran Walia and Sharmistha Mukherjee. Arvind Kejriwal took oath as the CM of Delhi on 14 February 2015.

Summary

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 Summary of results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015

	Political party	Flag	Seats Contested	Won	Net change in seats	% of Seats	Votes	Vote %	Change in vote %
Aam Aadmi Party		70	67	39	95.71	48,79,127	54.3	24.81
Bharatiya Janata Party		69	3	28	4.28	28,91,510	32.2	0.8
Shiromani Akali Dal		1	0	1	0	44,880	0.5	0.5
Indian National Congress		70	0	8	0	8,67,027	9.7	14.85
Bahujan Samaj Party		70	0	-	0	1,17,124	1.3	-
Indian National Lok Dal		2	0	-	0	54,464	0.6	-
Independents		-	0	1	0	47,623	0.5	-
NOTA		NA	NA	NA	NA	35,924	0.4	NA
			Total	70	Voters	-	Turnout	67.08 %

Vote Share of different parties in the election.

  AAP (54.3%)

  BJP (32.2%)

  INC (9.7%)

  BSP (1.3%)

  INLD (0.6%)

  IND (0.5%)

  Shiromani Akali Dal (0.5%)

  NOTA (0.4%)

  Other (0.5%)

Constituency wise result

Constituency No.	Constituency Name	Elected Member	Party		Margin	Votes %
1	Narela	Sharad Chauhan		AAP	40292	59.97
2	Burari	Sanjeev Jha		AAP	67950	63.82
3	Timarpur	Pankaj Pushkar		AAP	20647	51.05
4	Adarsh Nagar	Pawan Kumar Sharma		AAP	20741	51.36
5	Badli	Ajesh Yadav		AAP	35376	51.14
6	Rithala	Mahindra Goel		AAP	29251	56.63
7	Bawana	Ved Prakash		AAP	50023	57.91
8	Mundka	Sukhbir Dalal		AAP	40826	57.22
9	Kirari	Rituraj Jha		AAP	45172	61.66
10	Sultan Pur Majra	Sandeep Kumar		AAP	64439	69.5
11	Nangloi Jat	Raghuvendra Shaukeen		AAP	37024	54.64
12	Mangol Puri	Rakhi Bidlan		AAP	22699	46.94
13	Rohini	Vijendra Gupta		BJP	5367	49.83
14	Shalimar Bagh	Bandana Kumari		AAP	10978	52.14
15	Shakur Basti	Satyendra Kumar Jain		AAP	3133	48.67
16	Tri Nagar	Jitender Tomar		AAP	22311	55.7
17	Wazirpur	Rajesh Gupta		AAP	22044	54.85
18	Model Town	Akhilesh Pati Tripathi		AAP	16706	52.38
19	Sadar Bazar	Som Dutt		AAP	34315	56.6
20	Chandni Chowk	Alka Lamba		AAP	18287	49.35
21	Matia Mahal	Asim Ahmed Khan		AAP	26096	59.23
22	Ballimaran	Imran Hussain		AAP	33877	59.71
23	Karol Bagh	Vishesh Ravi		AAP	32880	59.8
24	Patel Nagar	Hazari Lal Chauhan		AAP	34638	59.05
25	Moti Nagar	Shiv Charan Goyal		AAP	15221	53.13
26	Madipur	Girish Soni		AAP	29387	57.24
27	Rajouri Garden	Jarnail Singh		AAP	10036	46.55
28	Hari Nagar	Jagdeep Singh		AAP	26496	58.42
29	Tilak Nagar	Jarnail Singh		AAP	19890	55.1
30	Janakpuri	Rajesh Rishi		AAP	25580	57.72
31	Vikaspuri	Mahendra Yadav		AAP	77665	62.53
32	Uttam Nagar	Naresh Balyan		AAP	30419	51.99
33	Dwarka	Adarsh Shastri		AAP	39366	59.08
34	Matiala	Gulab Singh		AAP	47004	54.91
35	Najafgarh	Kailash Gehlot		AAP	1555	34.62
36	Bijwasan	Devendra Sehrawat		AAP	19536	54.99
37	Palam	Bhavna Gaur		AAP	30849	55.96
38	Delhi Cantonment	Surinder Singh		AAP	11198	51.82
39	Rajinder Nagar	Vijender Garg		AAP	20051	53.39
40	New Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal		AAP	31583	64.14
41	Jangpura	Praveen Kumar		AAP	20450	48.11
42	Kasturba Nagar	Madan Lal		AAP	15896	51.55
43	Malviya Nagar	Somnath Bharti		AAP	15897	54.99
44	R K Puram	Pramila Tokas		AAP	19068	56.77
45	Mehrauli	Naresh Yadav		AAP	16951	51.06
46	Chhatarpur	Kartar Singh Tanwar		AAP	22240	54.29
47	Deoli	Prakash Jarwal		AAP	63937	70.61
48	Ambedkar Nagar	Ajay Dutt		AAP	42460	68.39
49	Sangam Vihar	Dinesh Mohania		AAP	43988	65.96
50	Greater Kailash	Saurabh Bhardwaj		AAP	14583	53.3
51	Kalkaji	Avtar Singh		AAP	19769	51.72
52	Tughlakabad	Sahi Ram		AAP	33701	62.4
53	Badarpur	ND Sharma		AAP	47583	59.3
54	Okhla	Amanathullah khan		AAP	64532	62.57
55	Trilokpuri	Raju Dhingan		AAP	29754	58.62
56	Kondli	Manoj Kumar		AAP	24759	50.66
57	Patparganj	Manish Sisodia		AAP	24759	53.58
58	Laxmi Nagar	Nitin Tyagi		AAP	4846	42.55
59	Vishwas Nagar	Omprakash Sharma		BJP	10158	45.16
60	Krishna Nagar	SK Bagga		AAP	2277	47.99
61	Gandhi Nagar	Anil Bajpai		AAP	7482	45.24
62	Shahdara	Ram Niwas Goel		AAP	11731	49.49
63	Seemapuri	Rajendra Gautam		AAP	48821	63.04
64	Rohtas Nagar	Sarita Singh		AAP	7874	45.96
65	Seelampur	Haji Ishraq (Bhure Bhai)		AAP	27887	51.26
66	Ghonda	SD Sharma		AAP	8093	44.96
67	Babarpur	Gopal Rai		AAP	35488	59.3
68	Gokalpur	Fateh Singh		AAP	31968	48.71
69	Mustafabad	Jagdish Pradhan		BJP	6031	35.33
70	Karawal Nagar	Kapil Mishra		AAP	44431	59.85

Reactions

• West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her "heartiest congratulations" to the party. She also said "This is a victory for the people and a big defeat for the arrogant and those who are doing political vendetta & spreading hate among people."
• CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said “The stupendous victory of AAP in the Delhi election is a total rejection of BJP and the leadership of Narendra Modi”.
• Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu said in a statement that "The victory of AAP reflects the greatness of democracy in India".
• Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said "The Delhi (Assembly election) results are an example to show that the people are thinking differently from traditional politics".
• Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar told the media "People want development with justice. They never accept arrogance. This is reflected in AAP's victory in Delhi".
• Singer Vishal Dadlani tweeted that he was "Wavin' the Jhaadu!".
• BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi congratulated Kejriwal and also asked him "make it a world class city".
• Gul Panag, actor-turned-politician and a candidate for General elections 2014 from Chandigarh from Aam Aadmi Party, said that the citizens of Delhi are creditable for the win and exclaimed that she wants to expand the party in Chandigarh. She also turned out for campaigning for Aam Aadmi Party for the elections.
• Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray mocked BJP by stating "Voters in Delhi have shown that a tsunami is bigger than any wave ."
• Rajdeep Sardesai A famous Indian Journalist referring to AAP's use of Social Media and indifference of mainstream media to AAP before election said "In the 2015 Delhi elections, Arvind Kejriwal didn't just demolish his opposition; he also defeated the media. The AAP leader had gone over our heads, effectively used social media, but most importantly, gone directly to those who really mattered: the voter! Pompous editors, noisy anchors and a corporatised media ownership had all been defeated."

See also

• First Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Second Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Third Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Fourth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
• Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015

External links

• Official Website of the Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi
• BJP Vision Document
• Congress Manifesto
• AAP Manifesto