NEW DELHI: The 2025 assembly election was a closely fought one with BJP and AAP putting up a great fight in almost all assembly constituencies, but the final results were decisive. Despite a small difference of just 2.6% in the vote share, BJP won 48 of 70 seats while AAP was reduced to only 22.
There were just two seats in the capital – Sangam Vihar and Trilokpuri – which were decided by a margin of less than 500 votes, and only one – Jangpura – where the gap between the votes of the winner and the closest rival was between 501 and 1,000 votes.
Delhi Election Results 2025
As per the data, 24 seats were decided by a margin of 10,000 votes or less. In 22 constituencies, the difference of votes was more than 20,000 which was less than half of seats decided by a similar margin in the 2015 assembly polls when AAP got a record mandate with 67 seats, indicating how comprehensive the party’s victory was 10 years ago. In the subsequent election in 2020, 29 seats saw the winning candidates getting a lead of 20,000 votes or above, once again proving AAP’s dominance in the election.
AAP’s Aaley Mohammad scored the biggest victory, winning the Matia Mahal seat by a record 42,724 votes. While Aaley, who was deputy mayor in MCD in 2023-24, got 58,120 votes, his nearest rival and BJP’s Deepti Indora could bag only 15,396 votes. Aaley got over 68% of the total votes polled, and Indora could barely manage a little over 18%. The seat has become a family fiefdom, as Aaley’s father Shoaib Iqbal won this seat for six terms. His only defeat came in 2015 when he lost to AAP’s Asim Ahmed Khan.
AAP’s Zubair Ahmed won Seelampur with the second largest margin of 42,477 votes by defeating BJP’s Anil Gaur. Interestingly, Zubair’s father Mateen Ahmed won this constituency five times in a row, from 1993 to 2013, on Janata Dal and Congress tickets, but lost the 2015 and 2020 polls. He moved to AAP last year along with his son and daughter-in-law, who is a municipal councillor.
From BJP, Vijender Gupta emerged as the biggest winner by defeating AAP’s Pradeep Mittal by a margin of 37,816 votes from Rohini. This is Gupta’s hat-trick of victories. Gupta was the leader of opposition from 2015 to 2020, and again from June 2024 till now.
In Sangam Vihar, BJP’s Chandan Kumar Chaudhary defeated AAP’s Dinesh Mohaniya by a narrow margin of 344 votes, scoring the narrowest victory of the season. In Trilokpuri, a reserved constituency, Ravikant Ujjain of BJP defeated AAP’s Anjana Parcha by second lowest margin of 392 votes.
Having won the last election by a small margin of 3,200 votes from Patparganj in 2020, AAP’s second-in-command, Manish Sisodia, shifted to Jangpura constituency hoping to score a comfortable victory this time. But he faced a narrow defeat of just 692 votes, at the hands of BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah.
Of 699 candidates who contested this election, only 144 managed to save their security deposit. This included all 70 from AAP, all 70 of BJP and its allies (Janata Dal (United) in Burari and LJP (Ram Vilas)), three from Congress and Shifa ur Rehman Khan of AIMIM in Okhla.