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Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015

2013 ← members 7 February 2015 → 2020

All 70 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Delhi 36 seats needed for a majority   Leader Kiran Bedi Arvind Kejriwal Ajay Maken Party Bharatiya Janata Party Aam Aadmi Party Indian National Congress Leader's seat Krishna Nagar New Delhi Sadar Bazar Last election 31 seats, 33.1% 28 seats, 29.5% 8 seats, 24.6%

Incumbent Chief Minister President's rule

Delhi Legislative Assembly election, 2015 will be held on 7 February 2015 to elect 70 members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Contents

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• 1 Background
• 2 Schedule
• 3 Campaign
  • 3.1 Aam Aadmi Party
  • 3.2 Bharatiya Janata Party
  • 3.3 Indian National Congress
• 4 Contestants
• 5 Opinion polls
• 6 External links
• 7 References

Background[edit]

In the 2013 Legislative Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 31 of the 70 seats which was a plurality. However they fell short of an outright majority and so were unable to form the government. This led the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Delhi Najeeb Jung to invite the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the second largest party after the BJP, to attempt to form government.^[2] AAP formed a minority government with outside support from the Indian National Congress(INC).^[3] AAP's leader Arvind Kejriwal, who had defeated the outgoing Chief Minister (CM) Sheila Dixit in the assembly elections became CM. However this government only lasted for 49 days as Kejriwal resigned on 14 February 2014. He cited the failure of the Assembly to pass the promised Jan Lokpal Bill as the reason for his resignation.^[4] Delhi was then governed by President's rule. The Union Cabinet recommended the dissolution of the Assembly and fresh elections on the recommendation of LG Jung on 4 November 2014. LG Jung made this decision after the leaders of the BJP, AAP, and INC all expressed to him their wish for new elections.^[5][6]

On 12 January 2015, the Election Commission of India announced that the elections would be held on 7 February with results being announced on 10 February. The last date for filing nominations for candidature was set as the 21st of January.^[1]

Schedule[edit]

Date of Notification	14.01.2015 (Wednesday)
Last date of making nomination	21.01.2015 (Wednesday)
Date of Scrutiny	22.01.2015 (Thursday)
Last date of withdrawal	24.01.2015 (Saturday)
Date of Poll	07.02.2015 (Saturday)
Date of Counting	10.02.2015 (Tuesday)
Date before which the Election Shall be Completed	12.02.2015 (Thursday)

source : ^[7]

Campaign[edit]

Aam Aadmi Party[edit]

AAP started campaigning in November 2014 as soon as the LG dissolved the assembly. This included door-to-door meetings with candidates and the electorate and fund-raising events.^[8]

Bharatiya Janata Party[edit]

On 10 January 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the BJP's campaign for the Delhi assembly polls by holding an Abhinandan rally at the Ramlila Ground. ^[9] On the 19th of January, Kiran Bedi was announced by the BJP as their candidate for chief minister. Bedi was also announced as the candidate for the Krishna Nagar assembly seat.^[10]

Indian National Congress[edit]

On 13 January 2015, Ajay Maken was announced to be heading the campaign for the Indian National Congress.^[11]

Contestants[edit]

Constituency No.	Name
		AAP	BJP	INC	SAD
1	Narela	Sharad Chauhan	Neeldaman Khatri	Praveen Kum Bhugra
2	Burari	Sanjeev Jha	Gopal Jha	Jile Singh Chauhan
3	Timarpur	Pankaj Pushkar	Rajni Abbi-W	Surender Pal Singh
4	Adarsh Nagar	Pawan Sharma	Ram Kishan Singhal	Mukesh Goel
5	Badli	Ajesh Yadav	Rajesh Yadav	Devender Yadav
6	Rithala	Mahindra Goel	Kulwant Rana	Jagdish Yadav
7	Bawana	Ved Prakash	Gugan Singh	Surender Kumar
8	Mundka	Rajendra Dabas Sukhbir Dalal	Master Azad Singh	Smt. Rita Shokeen
9	Kirari	Rituraj Jha	Anil Jha	Pratyush Kant
10	Sultan Pur Majra	Sandeep	Prabhu Dayal Sai	Jai Kishan
11	Nangloi Jat	Raghuvendra Shaukeen	Manoj Shokeen	Dr. Bijender Singh
12	Mangol Puri	Rakhi Bidlan	Surjeet	Raj Kumar Chauhan
13	Rohini	Charanji Lal Gupta	Vijendra Gupta	Sukhbir Sharma
14	Shalimar Bagh	Bandana Kumari	Rekha Gupta-W	Sulekh Agarwal
15	Shakur Basti	Satyendra Kumar Jain	Dr S C Vats	Chaman Lal Sharma
16	Tri Nagar	Jitender Tomar	Nand Kishor Garg	Anil Bhardwaj
17	Wazirpur	Suresh Bhardwaj	Mahendra Nagpal	Hari Shankar Gupta
18	Model Town	Akhilesh Pati Tripathi	Vivek Garg	Kanwar Karan Singh
19	Sadar Bazar	Som Dutt	Praveen Jain	Ajay Maken
20	Chandni Chowk	Alka Lamba	Suman Kumar Gupta	Prahlad S. Sawhney
21	Matia Mahal	Asim Ahmed Khan	Anjum Dahalwi	Shoaib Iqbal
22	Ballimaran	Imran Hussain	Shyam Morwal	Haroon Yusuf
23	Karol Bagh	Vishesh Ravi	Yogendra Chandolia	Madan Khorwal
24	Patel Nagar	Hazari Lal Chauhan	Krishna Tirath	Rajesh Lilothia
25	Moti Nagar	Shiv Charan Goyal	Subhash Sachdeva	Raj Kumar Maggo
26	Madipur	Girish Soni	Rajkumar Phulwaria	Malaram Gangwal
27	Rajouri Garden	Prit Pal Singh		Mrs. Dhanvanti Chandela	Manjinder Singh Sirsa
28	Hari Nagar	Jagdeep Singh		CP Mittal	Avtar Singh
29	Tilak Nagar	Jarnail Singh	Rajeev Babbar	Dhuli Chand Lohia
30	Janakpuri	Rajesh Rishi	Jagdish Mukhi	Suresh Kumar
31	Vikaspuri	Mahendra Yadav	Sanjay Singh	Nand Kishore Sehrawat
32	Uttam Nagar	Naresh Balyan	Pawan Sharma	Mukesh Sharma
33	Dwarka	Adarsh Shastri	Praduman Rajput	Mahabal Mishra
34	Matiala	Gulab Singh	Rajesh Gehlot	Sumesh Shokeen
35	Najafgarh	Kailash Gehlot	Ajeet Kharkhari	Jai Kishan Sharma
36	Bijwasan	Devendra Sehrawat	Sat Prakash Rana	Vijay Singh Lochav
37	Palam	Bhavna Gaur	Dharamdev Solanki	Madan Mohan
38	Delhi Cantonment	Surinder Singh (commando)	Karan Singh Tanwar	Sandeep Tanwar
39	Rajinder Nagar	Vijender Garg	Sardar R.P. Singh	Brahm Yadav
40	New Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal	Nupur Sharma	Kiran Walia
41	Jangpura	Praveen Kumar	M.S Dheer	Tarwinder S. Marwah
42	Kasturba Nagar	Madan Lal	Ravindra Choudhary	Neeraj Basoya
43	Malviya Nagar	Somnath Bharti	Nandani Sharma	Dr. Yoganand Shastri
44	R K Puram	Pramila Tokas	Anil Sharma	Leeladhar Bhatt
45	Mehrauli	Ch. Goverdhan SinghNaresh Yadav	Sarita Chaudhary	Satbir Singh
46	Chhatarpur	Kartar Singh Tanwar	Brahm Singh Tanwar	Bairam Tanwar
47	Deoli	Prakash Jarwal	Arvind Kumar	Rajesh Chauhan
48	Ambedkar Nagar	Ajay Dutt	Ashok Chauhan	Ch. Prem Singh
49	Sangam Vihar	Dinesh Mohania	H.C.L. Gupta	Vishan Swaroop Agarwal
50	Greater Kailash	Saurabh Bhardwaj	Rakesh Gulia	Sharmistha Mukherjee
51	Kalkaji	Avtar Singh		Subhash Chopra	Harmeet Singh Kalka
52	Tughlakabad	Sahi Ram	Vikram Vidhuri	Sachin Bidhuri
53	Badarpur	N. D Sharma	Rambir Vidhuri	Ram Singh Netaji
54	Okhla	Amanatullah Khan	Brahm Singh Vidhuri	Asif Muhammad Khan
55	Trilokpuri	Raju Dhingan	Smt. Kiran Vaidhya-W	Brahm Pal
56	Kondli	Manoj Kumar	Hukum Singh	Amrish Singh Gautam
57	Patparganj	Manish Sisodia	Vinod Kumar Binny	Anil Kumar
58	Laxmi Nagar	Nitin Tyagi	B.B. Tyagi	Dr. A.K. Walia
59	Vishwas Nagar	Atul Gupta	O.P. Sharma	Naseeb Singh
60	Krishna Nagar	SK Bagga	Kiran Bedi	Bansi Lal
61	Gandhi Nagar	Anil Bajpai	Jitendra Choudhary	Arvinder Singh
62	Shahdara	Ram Niwas Goel		Dr. Narender Nath	Jatinder Singh Shunty
63	Seemapuri	Rajendra Gautam	Karam Vir Chandel	Veer Singh Dhingan
64	Rohtas Nagar	Sarita Singh	Jitendra Mahajan	Vipin Sharma
65	Seelampur	Haji Ishraq (Bhure Bhai)	Sanjay Jain	Ch. Mateen Ahmed
66	Ghonda	SD Sharma	Sahib Singh Chouhan	Bheesham Sharma
67	Babarpur	Gopal Rai	Naresh Gaur	Zakir Khan
68	Gokalpur	Fateh Singh	Ranjeet Kashyap	Rinku
69	Mustafabad	Haji Yunus	Jagdish Pradhan	Hasan Ahmed
70	Karawal Nagar	Kapil Mishra	Mohan Singh Visht	Satanpal

Opinion polls[edit]

Number of seats (70)

Survey	Date					Ref(s)
		AAP	BJP	INC	Others
ABP News	10 November 2014	18	46	5	1	[12]
NewsX–CVoter	12 November 2014	26	37	6	2	[13][14]
ABP News–Nielsen	12 December 2014	17	45	7	1	[15]
India Today–CICERO Wave 1	18 December 2014	25–31	34–40	3–5	0–2	[16]
Economic Times–TNS	22 December 2014	22–25	43–47	0–3	N/A	[17]
TV24 News India	25 December 2014	39	23	5	3	[18]
India Today–CICERO Wave 2	12 January 2015	25–31	34–40	3–5	0–2	[19]
India TV-CVoter	12 January 2015	29	35	5	1	[20]
ABP News–Nielsen	15 January 2015	28	34	8	0	[21]
News Nation	19 January 2015	31-35	29-33	4-6	0-2	[22]
Zee News	19 January 2015	29	37	4	0	[23]

Vote share

Survey	Date					Ref(s)
		AAP	BJP	INC	Others
ABP News–Nielsen	10 November 2014	26%	38%	22%	14%	[24]
NewsX–CVoter	12 November 2014	39%	44%	11%	6%	[13] [14]
ABP News–Nielsen	12 December 2014	27%	38%	24%	11%	[25]
India Today–CICERO Wave 1	18 December 2014	36%	39%	16%	9%	[16]
The Economic Times–TNS	22 December 2014	40%	46%	N/A	N/A	[17]
TotalTV News	23 December 2014	48%	40%	8%	4%	[26]
India Today–CICERO Wave 2	12 January 2015	36%	40%	16%	8%	[19]
India TV-CVoter	12 January 2015	40%	42%	11%	7%	[20]
ABP News–Nielsen	15 January 2015	31%	35%	24%	10%	[27]
News Nation	19 January 2015	39%	35%	15%	5%	[28]
Zee News	19 January 2015	34%	45%	14%	7%	[29]

External links[edit]

• Official Website of the Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi

References[edit]

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