MCD Election Result 2022 Highlights: AAP ends BJP's 15-year rule in civic body, bags 134 seats

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has ended the Bharatiya Janata Party's 15-year rule at the Delhi municipal corporation. The latest results have put AAP's overall tally at 134.

MCD Election Result 2022 Highlights: AAP ends BJP's 15-year rule in civic body, bags 134 seats

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday (December 7, 2022) ended the Bharatiya Janata Party's 15-year rule at the Delhi municipal corporation with the final results putting the party's overall tally at 134. As per the State Election Commission figures, the BJP, which exit polls predicted would suffer a massive defeat, has won 104 seats. The Congress could only manage to get nine seats. Three Independent candidates, including Shakeela Begum from Seelampur in northeast Delhi, have also won.

The counting of votes began at 8 am, and initial trends put the BJP ahead of Kejriwal's party by a significant margin, but the pendulum swung in the AAP's favour as the counting progressed.

This was the first election after the MCD was reunified earlier this year.

Earlier in the 2017 civic polls in Delhi, the BJP had clinched 181 of the then 270 municipal wards while AAP had won only 48 and the Congress finished third with 30.

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07 December 2022

23:08 IST

Delhi Nagar Nigam Chunav Result 2022: BSP and SP fail to make their presence felt

Delhi Nagar Nigam Chunav Result 2022: Political parties like Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP), which had registered victory in the 2017 civic body polls in Delhi, have failed to make any significant mark in the MCD elections held on Sunday.

According to the data shared by the State Election Commission, BSP received 1,31,770 votes, a meager 1.80 per cent of the total votes polled in the December 4 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.

Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) got only 988 votes.

While the Indian Union Muslim League received 102 votes, the Lok Janshakti Party polled in 155 votes and the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM managed to get 45,628 votes constituting 0.62 per cent of the total votes.

22:15 IST

MCD election results 2022: BJP's vote share rises despite defeat

Even though the BJP lost the MCD polls to the AAP in a close contest, it managed to raise its vote share by 3 per cent as compared to the 2017 civic body elections in the national capital.

The vote share of the ruling party in Delhi also soared from 21.09 per cent in 2017 municipal polls to 42.05 per cent, as per figures of the State Election Commission.

The BJP which had won 181 of the 272 wards in 2017 managed to win only 104 wards this time surrendering its 15-year rule at the civic body to Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP.

The saffron party obtained 39.09 per cent of the total votes polled in the elections for 250 wards. In 2017 municipal polls, the party had secured 36.08 per cent votes.

An analysis of vote share of different contestants showed that the Congress which had obtained 21.09 per cent votes in 2017 could manage to get only 11.68 per cent votes this time.

Also, the vote share of Independent candidates slid to 3.46 per cent as compared to 8.8 per cent in 2017 civic body polls, suggesting that the votes of Congress and Independents shifted to the AAP and BJP.

The increased vote share of the AAP shoot up its seat tally to 134 from 48 it had won in the 2017 civic body polls.