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Delhi Election results: AAP wins New Delhi constituency, here's all you need to know

The New Delhi Assembly was carved out of the Gole Market and Sarojini Nagar constituencies in 2008. It has a history of being represented by the Delhi chief minister.

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The Aam Aadmi Party has won the Mehrauli seat. Party chief Arvind Kejriwal defeated BJP's Sunil Yadav by 21,697 votes.

In 2008, Congress leader and former Delhi CM Late Sheila Dikshit defeated BJP's Vijay Jolly. Later in 2013 and 2015, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal won the seat.

While Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought re-election from the seat, both BJP and Congress fielded less-known first-timers from the constituency against him.

BJP's Delhi unit Yuva Morcha president Sunil Yadav and Congress' Romesh Sabharwal, both little-known faces, were in the fray.

Here is a brief profile of the New Delhi seat:

Constituency Name: New Delhi

Constituency Number: 40

Total voters: 88,225

Previous elections: Delhi Chief Minister won the seat in both 2015 elections. Earlier, former CM Sheila Dikshit won the seat.

In the Delhi Assembly Elections 2020, AAP contested from all 70 seats for the assembly polls while BJP contested on 67 seats, with its ally Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) contested on the remaining three seats.

On the other hand, Congress fought on 66 seats and its ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) fought on the remaining 4 seats.

Polling was held at 13,750 polling stations. According to the poll body chief, total electors in the final electoral roll of the NCT of Delhi as on January 6, 2020, were 1,46,92,136.

The polls for all the seats were held on February 8, 2020, and the results were declared on February 11, 2020.

It is to be noted that in 2015, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had a landmark victory after it secured 67 of the total 70 seats in the state legislature. The party is now eyeing a second consecutive term banking on freebies that it provided to Delhiites including free water, free electricity up to 200 units, free ride for women in DTC and cluster buses, among other measures.

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