Aam Aadmi Party won a second landslide in Delhi under Arvind Kejriwal, again leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party far behind.¹

It won 62 of the 70 seats on offer.

That left it 26 seats clear of a majority.

That was 53.6% of the vote share — the slice of all ballots cast that went to one party or candidate.

Its closest rival, the BJP, won 8 seats on 38.5% of the vote.

The Election Commission announced Delhi's poll schedule on 6 January, setting a single phase of voting for 8 February and counting for 11 February.²

Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party released a 10-point guarantee card on 19 January, promising a Jan Lokpal bill, doorstep ration delivery and pollution reduction.¹

On 30 January a gunman shot and injured a student protester near Jamia Millia Islamia. On 1 February another gunman fired shots into the air near the Shaheen Bagh protest site, shouting 'Jai Shri Ram,' before being taken into custody.³

The Bharatiya Janata Party released its manifesto on 31 January, promising housing for all by 2022 without naming a chief ministerial candidate. The Election Commission transferred the area's deputy commissioner of police on 2 February over the shootings. The Indian National Congress released a nine-point platform the same day, including a strong Lokpal law and pollution-fighting measures.⁴⁵⁶

AAP's hold on Delhi barely loosened.

Its own seat count slipped from 67 at the previous election to 62 this time.

The single biggest movement ran from AAP to BJP, covering 6 of the 7 seats that changed hands.

It marked 2 wins in a row for the party.

Turnout, the share of registered voters who actually cast a ballot, eased to 62.7%, down -4.7 pp from the previous election.

The closest race was Bijwasan, Delhi, decided by a margin — how far ahead the winner finished, in votes, over whoever came second — of 753 votes.

Matia Mahal, Delhi saw the widest margin of the night, with the winner ahead by 56.7% of the vote.

Ballimaran, Delhi recorded the highest turnout of any seat, 71.6%.

Matiala, Delhi was the largest constituency by registered voters, with 4,24,924 names on the rolls.

New Delhi, Delhi drew the most candidates, 28 in total.

NOTA — None of the Above, a ballot option letting voters formally reject every candidate on offer — drew 43,108 votes statewide, 0.5% of the total.

The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991, restored an elected Legislative Assembly for Delhi after a 37-year gap, with land, police and public order kept under central government control.⁷

The first election to the new 70-seat Assembly was held in 1993.⁷

AAP was founded on 26 November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and other activists from the 2011 anti-corruption movement, and first contested the 2013 Delhi election, winning 28 of 70 seats to form a minority government with outside Congress support.⁸