2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

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]

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
Turnout	66.02% (8.42%)
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 9 New 35 Popular vote 2,604,100 2,322,330 1,932,933 Percentage 33% 29.5% 24.6% Swing 3.4% New 15.7%   Fourth party   Leader Mayawati Party BSP Leader's seat Not Contested Seats before 2 Seats after 0 Seat change 2 Popular vote 420,926 Percentage 5.35% Swing 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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	8	44.3	2,604,100	33.07	3
	Aam Aadmi Party		69	28	New	40.0	2,322,330	29.49	New
	Indian National Congress		70	8	35	11.4	1,932,933	24.55	15
	Janata Dal (United)		27	1	1	1.4	68,818	0.87	New
	Shiromani Akali Dal		4	1	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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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