In Delhi’s 18 rural seats, BJP ends decade of AAP dominance

The BJP’s agrarian dominance matched its show successful municipality areas, wherever of the 52 seats, the BJP won 35. The AAP got 17.

Most of Delhi’s agrarian seats are concentrated connected the outskirts of Delhi, falling mostly successful the North West and South West districts. As acold arsenic colonisation goes, the nationalist superior is astir wholly urban, astatine 97.5% of its numbers arsenic per the 2011 Census.

In 2015, erstwhile it won 67 of Delhi’s 70 seats, the AAP had swept each the 18 agrarian seats. It followed this up successful 2020 by winning 17, arsenic portion of its 62-seat expanse of the Capital.

In 2013, erstwhile the AAP archetypal entered the Delhi electoral race, and the Assembly was a hung contest, the BJP had won 13 of the agrarian seats, with 2 each going to the AAP and Congress, and 1 to an Independent.

While the BJP dominated agrarian seats this time, going by ballot shares, the contention was overmuch tighter. At 44.68%, the BJP got somewhat lesser votes than its wide ballot share, astatine 45.56%, portion the AAP astatine 43.03% got astir the aforesaid votes arsenic overall. The Congress had much votes here, astatine 7.01%, than its wide ballot share.

In 2015, the AAP had a 56.23% ballot stock successful agrarian seats, successful comparison, acold up of the BJP’s astatine 31.07% and the Congress’s astatine 7.86%. In 2020, the AAP declined to 52.93%, portion the BJP saw a emergence to 37.93%. The Congress, though, fell further to 3.83%.

Among the notable contests successful the agrarian seats this clip were those successful Bijwasan and the Scheduled Caste-reserved Madipur. In Bijwasan, the BJP’s Kailash Gahlot emerged victorious up of the AAP’s Surender Bhardwaj. Gahlot, a erstwhile Cabinet curate successful the outgoing AAP authorities and two-time Najafgarh MLA, had discontinue to articulation the BJP 3 months ago.

In Madipur, the AAP’s Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla suffered decision astatine the hands of the BJP’s Kailash Gangwal. A three-time Mangol Puri MLA, Birla was fielded from Madipur this time.

In municipality seats, too, the ballot stock conflict was close. The BJP secured 46.34% of the votes, much than its wide share, with the AAP adjacent down astatine 43.8%, astatine astir the aforesaid arsenic its wide ballot share. The Congress astatine 6.05% besides got astir the aforesaid votes arsenic its wide share.