Will AAP-Congress alliance beat BJP in Lok Sabha 2024? A look at Delhi's poll results since 2004

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Congress are part of the Opposition's INDIA bloc. The alliance of over 25 opposition parties was formed in a bid to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming general elections. ALSO READ: AAP-Congress alliance leaves Ahmed Patel's children unhappy – Here's why But will the AAP-Congress alliance be able to beat the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in 2024? Here's a look at how the national capital has fared in the past four general elections.

In 2019, all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi — Chandni Chowk, North East Delhi, East Delhi, New Delhi, North West Delhi, West Delhi and South Delhi — were won by the BJP. In 2014 too, the BJP won all these seats, defeating the Congress. Before 2014, the Congress had won all seven Lok Sabha seats in the 2009 elections, while the party won six in the 2004 elections.

The one seat the grand-old party lost to the BJP was won by a BJP candidate with a vote margin of just 3.34 percent. ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Full list of 46 seats to be contested by AAP and Congress — Which seat goes to which party? The AAP has never won a single Lok Sabha seat in Delhi. Put more simply, the Congress had a hold on Delhi until 2014, when the BJP won an overall majority, making Narendra Modi the Prime Minister of the country.

ALSO READ: AAP, Congress ‘mutually agreed’ to go solo in Punjab says Arvind Kejriwal, rules out any ‘hostility’ While the BJP's vote share has considerably increased over the past four years, that of the Congress declined substantially in 2014. The Congress's vote share in 2009 was around 57 percent. It fell sharply to 15 percent in the 2014 elections.