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2013 Delhi state assembly election
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All 70 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi
36 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout66.02% (Increase8.42%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Harsh Vardhan Arvind Kejriwal Sheila Dikshit
Party BJP AAP INC
Leader since 2012 2012 1998
Leader's seat Krishna Nagar New Delhi New Delhi
(lost)
Seats before 23 New 43
Seats after 32 28 8
Seat change Increase 9 New Decrease 35
Popular vote 2,604,100 2,322,330 1,932,933
Percentage 33% 29.5% 24.6%
Swing Decrease 3.4% New Decrease 15.7%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Mayawati
Party BSP
Leader's seat Not Contested
Seats before 2
Seats after 0
Seat change Decrease 2
Popular vote 420,926
Percentage 5.35%
Swing Decrease 8.69%
Map of Delhi showing results of the 2013 Vidhan Sabha election
Chief Minister before election

Sheila Dikshit
INC

Elected Chief Minister

Arvind Kejriwal
AAP

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The Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 December 2013, with the result announced on 8 December resulting in formation of the Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi.[1][2]

The Bharatiya Janata Party won a plurality, closely followed by Aam Aadmi Party, in its first election; this resulted in a hung assembly. After the BJP refused to form a government in the hung assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal became chief minister with external support from the Indian National Congress (INC).[3]

Electoral law change

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This was one of the first five elections in which the Election Commission of India implemented a "None of the above" (NOTA) voting option, allowing the electorate to register a neutral to people any think vote but not to outright reject candidates.[4] In a first, the Election Commission of India also appointed Central Awareness Observers, whose main task was to oversee voter awareness and facilitation.[5]

Contesting parties

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There were 810 candidates running for office, including 224 independents.[6]

Party Seats contested Chief Minister Candidate Notes/Link to Candidate lists
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 69 Arvind Kejriwal[7] [8]
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) 2 [9]
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) 66 Harsh Vardhan[10] [11]
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 70 [12]
Communist Party of India (CPI) 10 [9]
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) 3 [9]
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) (L) 4 [9]
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) 11 [13]
Indian National Congress (INC) 70 Sheila Dikshit[14] [15]
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 70 [16]
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) 4 Harsh Vardhan
(as part of NDA)
Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) 1

BJP and SAD formed a pre-poll alliance; SAD contested four seats (Hari Nagar, Rajouri Garden, Kalkaji and Shahdara), while BJP contested the rest.[17]

Campaign

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The AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal called the BJP's Harsh Vardhan the "Manmohan Singh of the BJP" as incapable of stemming the "rot" in Delhi's governance. He added: "We will help the people of Delhi get rid of Congress misgovernance first, and then ensure change at the national level in the Lok Sabha polls." However, Vardhan was supported by the BJP's prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 Indian general election, Narendra Modi.[18] The Hindustan Times suggested that the Rajnath Singh-appointed BJP Delhi leader, Vijay Goel, though organisationally competent, lost favour due to his exclusion of established regional leaders in reorganising local units. Singh was still viewed as reluctant to "change horses in mid-stream" but agreed. Modi led the charge, with other party leaders, to have Vardhan as the chief ministerial candidate[19] and Goel himself agreed to the nomination of Vardhan.[20] The AAP released its first electoral manifesto.[21]

Opinion polls

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Number of seats

Survey Date AAP BJP INC Others Source
AAP-Cicero 30 November 2013 38-50 11-17 8-14 0-13 [22]
BJP (Internal) November 2013 5 36 11 - 18 "swing seats where the readings were too close to call"[22]
India TV-CVoter November 2013 10 29 27 4 [22]
India Today, ORG November 2013 6 36 22 4 [23]
Times Now, C-Voter November 2013 18 25 24 3 [24]
CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDS October 2013 19-25 22-28 19-25 0-2 [25]
ABP News-AC Nielsen October 2013 18 28 22 2 [26]
India TV-CVoter-Times Now September 2013 7 30 29 4 [27]
Hindustan Times-C Fore September 2013 7-12 22-27 32-37 0-4 [28]

Vote share

Survey Date AAP BJP INC Others Source
AAP-Cicero 30 November 2013 36% 27% 26% 11% [22]
BJP November 2013 18% 35% 24% 23% [22]
India TV-CVoter November 2013 24% 33% 30% 13% [22]
CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDS October 2013 28% 29% 27% 16% [26]
ABP News-AC Nielsen September 2013 15% 34% 29% 22% [29]
India TV-CVoter-Times Now September 2013 16% 38% 34% 12% [27]
Hindustan Times-C Fore September 2013 20% 32% 34% 14% [28]
AAP-Cicero September 2013 32% 23% 25% 20% [30]

Election

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There were 11,753 polling stations, including the presence of EVMs, while 630 identified as critical and hypercritical. There were 11.9  million eligible voters, of which 6.6  million were men and 5.3  million were women while there were 405,000 first-time voters. 32,801 Delhi Police personnel and 107 companies of central paramilitary forces were deployed to ensure a peaceful election. Polling stations opened at 8:00 am and turnout was 66%.[6]

Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs was used in 1 assembly seat in Delhi elections-New Delhi.[31][32] Polling stations in Tuglaqabad, Karol Bagh, Trilokpuri and Badarpur reportedly had long waits because EVMs dysfunctioned. In Jungpura, Badli, Krishna Nagar, and Kondli constituencies, some voters complained that their names were on the electoral rolls and that they could not vote.

After voting, party leaders expressed their opinion. Kejriwal said he is confident of a positive result for his party.[33] Vardhan claimed the BJP was "far ahead" of the INC and Aam Aadmi Party. "I can tell you very categorically that we are far ahead of Congress and the new entrant in Delhi politics. I am 100 percent confident about our victory. I think nobody can make any dent in our vote bank. If there is any contest or fight, it is between the Congress and the new entrant (for the second place)." Dikshit said she had her "fingers crossed" on the outcome, while national party leader Sonia Gandhi said from her Nirman Bhavan polling station: "We will win."[6] At many places people with disabilities could not vote due to inaccessible polling booths.[34][35]

In all over 43,000 postal ballots were received, an increase from the last election's 1,600 postal ballots. The Delhi Election Commission announced that 2,000 Central Paramilitary Force and Delhi Police personnel were at the vote-counting centers in the city on the day of the result announcement and CCTV cameras and live streaming of proceedings through webcasting, two layers of security cover have been set at all the 14 counting centers. Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev said: "Paramilitary force forms the inner circle of security of centers while adequate numbers of Delhi Police personnel will ensure safety from outside. Counting of votes will start from 8 AM tomorrow and during the first-hour postal ballots will be counted."[36] The postal ballots were counted before the EVM votes.[37]

Exit polls showed the BJP in the lead to possibly form a government on its own, followed by the AAP and the incumbent INC in third place; others, in general, were fourth with the BSP following.[38]

Result

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Further information: Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi § List of members

Notably, the INC's Chaudhary Prem Singh lost in the Ambedkar Nagar constituency, he held the seat since 1993 and had not lost a single election in 50 years; however, Ashok Kumar of the AAP won the seat.[39] Incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit lost her New Delhi constituency seat to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal by a margin that was much more than her total votes and winning hardly 500 votes more than the BJP's Vijender Kumar who finished third;[40] she then submitted her resignation to Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.[41]

Summary of results of the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election[42]
Political party Flag Seats
Contested		 Won Net change
in seats		 % of
seats 		Votes Vote % Change in
vote %
Bharatiya Janata Party 66 31 Increase 8 44.3 2,604,100 33.07 Decrease 3
Aam Aadmi Party 69 28 New 40.0 2,322,330 29.49 New
Indian National Congress 70 8 Decrease 35 11.4 1,932,933 24.55 Decrease 15
Janata Dal (United) 27 1 Increase 1 1.4 68,818 0.87 New
Shiromani Akali Dal 4 1 Increase 1 1.4 71,757 1 N/A
Independents 225 1 0 1.4 10 N/A
Total 70 Voters 7,699,800 Turnout: 66%
  Bharatiya Janta Party
  Aam Aadmi Party
  Indian National Congress
  Janata Dal (United)
  Shiromani Akali Dal
  Independent

Results by districts

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District Seats BJP AAP INC Others
North Delhi 8 4 3 1 0
Central Delhi 7 0 4 2 1
North West Delhi 7 3 2 1 1
West Delhi 7 4 3 1 0
New Delhi 6 2 4 0 0
South West Delhi 7 6 1 0 0
South East Delhi 7 3 3 1 0
South Delhi 5 2 3 0 0
East Delhi 6 1 4 1 0
Shahdara 5 4 1 0 0
North East Delhi 5 3 0 2 0
Total 70 32 28 8 2

Results by constituency

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Assembly Constituency Turnout
(%) 		Winner Runner Up Margin
# Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %
North Delhi District
1 Narela 68.15 Neel Daman Khatri BJP 54,622 37.95 Virender BSP 31,077 21.59 23,545
Central Delhi District
2 Burari 65.96 Sanjeev Jha AAP 60,164 37.07 Sri Krishan BJP 49,813 30.69 10,351
3 Timarpur 65.48 Harish Khanna AAP 39,650 35.03 Rajni Abbi BJP 36,267 32.04 3,383
North Delhi District
4 Adarsh Nagar 66.44 Ram Kishan Singhal BJP 36,985 38.08 Jagdeep Rana AAP 26,929 27.73 10,056
5 Badli 61.53 Devender Yadav INC 54,372 44.60 Vijay Kumar Bhagat BJP 31,263 25.65 23,109
North West Delhi District
6 Rithala 64.91 Kulwant Rana BJP 73,961 51.30 Harish Awasthi AAP 48,135 33.39 25,286
North Delhi District
7 Bawana(SC) 61.14 Gugan Singh Ranga BJP 68,407 41.10 Manoj AAP 42,768 25.69 25,639
North West Delhi District
8 Mundka 63.28 Rambir Shokeen IND 52,564 34.27 Azad Singh BJP 45,430 29.62 7,134
9 Kirari 64.21 Anil Jha Vats BJP 72,283 52.15 Rajan Prakash AAP 23,757 17.14 48,526
10 Sultanpur Majra(SC) 63.88 Jai Kishan INC 31,458 29.79 Sandeep Kumar AAP 30,346 28.74 1,112
West Delhi District
11 Nangloi Jat 61.64 Manoj Kumar Shokeen BJP 57,449 42.32 Dr. Bijender Singh INC 46,434 34.20 11,015
North West Delhi District
12 Mangol Puri(SC) 69.73 Rakhi Birla AAP 44,383 38.42 Raj Kumar Chauhan INC 33,798 29.25 10,585
North Delhi District
13 Rohini 68.15 Rajesh Garg AAP 47,890 43.54 Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal BJP 46,018 41.84 1,852
North West Delhi District
14 Shalimar Bagh 66.62 Bandana Kumari AAP 47,235 44.01 Ravinder Nath Bansal BJP 36,584 34.09 10,651
North Delhi District
15 Shakur Basti 70.85 Satyendra Kumar Jain AAP 40,232 42.30 Shyam Lal Garg BJP 33,170 34.87 7,062
North West Delhi District
16 Tri Nagar 66.55 Nand Kishore Garg BJP 36,970 35.78 Jitender Singh Tomar AAP 34,161 33.06 2,809
North Delhi District
17 Wazirpur 67.05 Dr. Mahender Nagpal BJP 37,306 36.25 Praveen Kumar AAP 31,732 30.84 5,574
18 Model Town 68.53 Akhilesh Pati Tripathi AAP 38,492 39.84 Ashok Goel BJP 30,617 31.69 7,875
Central Delhi District
19 Sadar Bazar 66.80 Som Dutt AAP 34,079 31.24 Jai Parkash BJP 33,283 30.51 796
20 Chandni Chowk 65.48 Parlad Singh Sawhney INC 26,335 37.77 Suman Kumar Gupta BJP 18,092 25.95 8,243
21 Matia Mahal 65.77 Shoaib Iqbal JD(U) 22,732 31.72 Mirza Javed Ali INC 19,841 27.68 2,891
22 Ballimaran 67.47 Haroon Yusuf INC 32,105 36.18 Moti Lal Sodhi BJP 24,012 27.06 8,093
23 Karol Bagh(SC) 67.34 Vishesh Ravi AAP 35,818 35.06 Surender Pal Ratawal BJP 34,068 33.34 1,750
New Delhi District
24 Patel Nagar(SC) 65.96 Veena Anand AAP 38,899 37.91 Poornima Vidyarthi BJP 32,637 31.81 6,262
West Delhi District
25 Moti Nagar 68.99 Subhash Sachdeva BJP 42,599 42.42 Kuldeep Singh Channa AAP 26,578 26.47 16,021
26 Madipur(SC) 68.09 Girish Soni AAP 36,393 35.87 Kailash Sankla BJP 35,290 34.88 1,103
27 Rajouri Garden 68.93 Manjinder Singh Sirsa SAD 41,721 40.93 Dhanwanti Chandela INC 30,713 30.13 11,008
28 Hari Nagar 66.69 Jagdeep Singh AAP 38,912 38.81 Shyam Sharma SAD 30,036 29.96 8,876
29 Tilak Nagar 66.20 Jarnail Singh AAP 34,993 39.27 Rajiv Babbar BJP 32,405 36.90 2,088
30 Janakpuri 69.05 Jagdish Mukhi BJP 42,886 39.87 Rajesh Rishi AAP 40,242 37.42 2,644
South West Delhi District
31 Vikaspuri 63.23 Mahinder Yadav AAP 62,030 34.33 Krishan Gahlot BJP 61,627 34.10 405
32 Uttam Nagar 69.48 Pawan Sharma BJP 48,377 36.38 Mukesh Sharma INC 42,031 31.61 6,346
33 Dwarka 65.51 Parduymn Rajput BJP 42,734 37.30 Ravi Kumar Suryan AAP 37,537 32.77 5,197
34 Matiala 64.13 Rajesh Gahlot BJP 70,053 36.10 Gulab Singh Yadav AAP 66,051 34.05 4,002
35 Najafgarh 67.96 Ajeet Singh Kharkhari BJP 54,358 33.27 Bharat Singh INLD 44,590 31.00 9,768
36 Bijwasan 63.15 Sat Prakash Rana BJP 35,988 34.65 Devinder Sehrawat AAP 33,574 32.32 2,414
37 Palam 63.14 Dharam Dev Solanki BJP 42,833 33.30 Bhavna Gaur AAP 34,661 26.79 8,372
New Delhi District
38 Delhi Cantonment 60.22 Surinder Singh AAP 26,124 39.67 Karan Singh Tanwar BJP 25,769 39.13 355
39 Rajinder Nagar 60.54 R. P. Singh BJP 35,713 35.82 Vijendar Garg Vijay AAP 33,917 34.02 1,796
40 New Delhi 66.93 Arvind Kejriwal AAP 44,269 53.46 Sheila Dikshit INC 18,405 22.23 25,864
South East Delhi District
41 Jangpura 62.30 Maninder Singh Dhir AAP 29,701 36.95 Tarvinder Singh Marwah INC 27,957 34.78 1,744
42 Kasturba Nagar 66.56 Madan Lal AAP 33,609 38.03 Shikha Roy BJP 28,935 32.74 4,674
South Delhi District
43 Malviya Nagar 65.74 Somnath Bharti AAP 32,258 39.43 Arti Mehra BJP 24,486 29.93 7,772
New Delhi District
44 R K Puram 63.46 Anil Kumar Sharma BJP 28,017 33.17 Shazia Ilmi AAP 27,691 32.78 326
South Delhi District
45 Mehrauli 62.06 Parvesh Verma BJP 37,481 38.72 Narinder Singh Sejwal AAP 32,917 34.01 4,564
46 Chhatarpur 66.12 Brahm Singh Tanwar BJP 49,975 45.07 Balram Tanwar INC 33,851 30.53 16,124
47 Deoli(SC) 64.22 Prakash Jarwal AAP 51,646 43.41 Gagan Rana BJP 34,538 26.02 17,108
48 Ambedkar Nagar(SC) 68.68 Ashok Kumar Chauhan AAP 36,239 42.42 Khushiram Chunar BJP 24,569 28.76 11,670
South East Delhi District
49 Sangam Vihar 64.95 Dinesh Mohaniya AAP 24,851 27.87 Shiv Charan Lal Gupta BJP 24,074 27.00 777
New Delhi District
50 Greater Kailash 66.15 Saurabh Bhardwaj AAP 43,097 45.26 Ajay Kumar Malhotra BJP 30,005 31.51 13,092
South East Delhi District
51 Kalkaji 63.11 Harmeet Singh Kalka BJP 30,683 33.77 Dharambir Singh AAP 28,639 31.52 2,044
52 Tughlakabad 66.19 Ramesh Bidhuri BJP 34,009 38.98 Sahi Ram BSP 28,063 32.17 5,946
53 Badarpur 64.20 Ramvir Singh Bidhuri BJP 43,544 34.23 Ram Singh Netaji INC 31,490 23.77 12,054
54 Okhla 58.33 Asif Muhammad Khan INC 50,004 36.34 Irfanullah Khan AAP 23,459 17.05 26,545
East Delhi District
55 Trilokpuri(SC) 69.10 Raju Dhingan AAP 44,082 38.93 Sunil Kumar BJP 26,397 23.31 17,685
56 Kondli(SC) 67.75 Manoj Kumar AAP 36.863 34.17 Dushyant Kumar Gautam BJP 29,373 29.22 7,490
57 Patparganj 63.95 Manish Sisodia AAP 50,211 41.53 Nakul Bharadwaj BJP 38,735 32.04 11,476
58 Laxmi Nagar 64.70 Vinod Kumar Binny AAP 43,052 36.41 Dr. Ashok Kumar Walia INC 35,300 29.85 7,752
Shahdara District
59 Vishwas Nagar 67.09 Om Prakash Sharma BJP 44,801 38.00 Naseeb Singh INC 37,002 31.38 7,799
East Delhi District
60 Krishna Nagar 67.78 Harsh Vardhan BJP 69,222 58.33 Dr. Vinod Kumar Monga INC 26,072 21.97 43,150
61 Gandhi Nagar 65.86 Arvinder Singh Lovely INC 48,897 48.47 Ramesh Chand Jain BJP 31,936 31.66 16,961
Shahdara District
62 Shahdara 67.64 Jitender Singh Shunty BJP 45,364 42.96 Dr Narender Nath INC 30,247 28.64 15,117
63 Seemapuri(SC) 72.63 Dharmender Singh AAP 43,199 37.76 Veer Singh Dhingan INC 31,223 27.29 11,976
64 Rohtas Nagar 68.92 Jitender Mahajan BJP 49,916 41.34 Mukesh Hooda AAP 34,973 28.96 14,943
North East Delhi District
65 Seelampur 68.50 Chaudhary Mateen Ahmed INC 46,452 46.52 Kaushal Kumar Mishra BJP 24,724 24.76 21,728
66 Ghonda 65.54 Sahab Singh Chauhan BJP 47,531 39.25 Bheeshma Sharma INC 35,599 29.40 11,932
Shahdara District
67 Babarpur 65.89 Naresh Gaur BJP 34,180 29.73 Zakir Khan INC 29,673 36.23 4,507
North East Delhi District
68 Gokalpur(SC) 71.68 Rajneet Singh BJP 34,888 27.24 Surendra Kumar IND 32,966 25.74 1,922
69 Mustafabad 71.76 Hasan Ahmed INC 56,250 38.24 Jagdish Pradhan BJP 54,354 36.95 1,896
70 Karawal Nagar 67.55 Mohan Singh Bisht BJP 49,262 34,64 Kapil Mishra AAP 46,179 32.47 3,083

Reactions

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Former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said: "We accept our defeat and we will analyze what went wrong. We respect what the people of Delhi have decided and thank them for supporting us for last 15 years."[43]

Government formation

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As no party won a majority of the 70 seats in the assembly,[44] if the necessary coalition government is not possible, Delhi would be put under president's rule until a new election is held within six months. However, the INC, BJP, and AAP have all said they would not seek alliances with each other. The other option was to try to bring in independents; though since there are not enough, the media speculated that the other option would be lured away MLAs from another party (the AAP being the most likely in their analysis).[45]

As the BJP won 31 seats, while its alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal won one seat, they gained a plurality and would have the first right to form a new government. However, they declined the offer from Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung to form a new government citing an inability to obtain a majority. Jung then invited the Aam Aadmi Party to form the government.[46] Kejriwal wrote to BJP national leader Rajnath Singh and INC national leader Sonia Gandhi for clarification on 18 issues before seeking their support in forming a coalition.

On 9 December, Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley wrote a blog suggesting that Congress should support AAP to form government in Delhi.[47] The BJP did not reply and the INC agreed to 16 of the 18 issues and offered its outside support. On 14 December, BJP Chief Ministerial candidate Dr. Harsh Vardhan asked AAP to take congress support and form the government.[48] The AAP then sought public opinion through a variety of mediums[49] such as via community meetings, text messages and pamphlets[50] about whether or not it should take the support of the INC.[49] AAP then formed a minority government with outside support from the INC.[51] In a letter to the Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, the AAP did not however mention that it has the support of the INC.[52] Jung then sent his recommendations to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Kejriwal was then sworn in as 7th Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December, leading the First Kejriwal cabinet, the youngest cabinet in Delhi ever.[53] M. S. Dhir was elected as the speaker of the legislative assembly on 3 January 2014.[54]

Amongst its first tasks, the AAP initiated a corruption response mechanism in a "durbar";[citation needed] it also retracted the FDI in multi-brand retail that the previous government had sanctioned. Kejriwal said that though this would give consumers more options it has been shown that it "leads to loss of jobs to a very large extent. There is huge unemployment in Delhi and the AAP government does not wish to increase this unemployment. Delhi is not prepared for FDI."[55] Yet he added that he was not against FDI by itself but that it needed to occur on a case-by-case basis.[56]

Government resignation

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After 49 days, Kejriwal resigned as a chief minister following the failure of the introduction of Delhi's Jan Lokpal Bill in the assembly on 14 February 2014. President's rule was then imposed and the assembly was kept in suspended animation.[57] Fresh elections were scheduled for early 2015.

See also

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