Delhi Election Results: AAP's Bandana Kumari wins Shalimar Bagh constituency

AAP won the Shalimar Bagh constituency. Party member Bandana Kumari defeated BJPs Rekha Gupta by 3440 votes.

Previously, the BJP had its iron grip on the constituency winning four out of six assembly elections. However, in 2013 AAP managed to wrest the seat away from the saffron party, and in 2015 elections, retained the seat.

 BJP's trust in former nominee Rekha Gupta could not pay any dividends against AAP's r Bandana Kumari, who retained her seat for the second time. 

The constituency currently has 1,74,397 voters, out of which 94,144 are men and 80,243 are women and 10 third gender voters. 

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.