Delhi Lok Sabha Election Result: BJP repeats 2019 ‘clean sweep’ verdict but with low margins

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Lok Sabha elections 2024. The Election Commission of India declared BJP candidates Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Praveen Khandelwal, Bansuri Swaraj, Harsh Malhotra, Manoj Tiwari, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, and Yogender Chandoliya winners on June 4.

They dominated their respective seats with margins of 124,333, 89,325, 78,000, 93,663, 138,778, 199,013, and 290,849 votes, respectively. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fought against the Congress-AAP alliance in the national capital, where it previously won all seven seats in both the 2014 and 2019 general elections.In an unprecedented move, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress have allied to challenge the ruling BJP in Delhi's Lok Sabha elections.

Hence, for the first time, the BJP faced a direct contest with the AAP in four seats and with the Congress in three seats, instead of the triangular contests it had encountered since 2014.The exit polls indicated that the saffron party is likely to secure another victory. The polls predicted a repeat of the 2019 outcome, with the BJP expected to capture between 50% and 56% of the vote share.The AAP faced a formidable challenge against the BJP, which secured 57% of the vote share in 2019, maintaining a 16% point lead over the combined vote shares of AAP and Congress.In 2019, BJP candidates secured victories with margins ranging from over 2.28 lakh to 5.78 lakh votes.