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Behind the BJP’s booth-level revival in Delhi

In 2025, Delhi had a total of 13,766 polling booths across its 70 assembly constituencies with an average of 686 votes per polling booth.

Delhi BJP leaders with Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena. (Photo from X)

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Updated on Apr 02, 2025 09:07 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, Roshan Kishore

We fought a better election than 2020: Delhi Cong chief

Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav reflects on the party's assembly poll performance, acknowledging zero wins but a 2% vote share increase.

Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav. (Congress - X)

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Published on Feb 11, 2025 05:32 AM IST

BySnehil Sinha

Delhi results: Congress vote share rises by 2%. How it cut into AAP’s margins

In the 2025 Delhi assembly election, the AAP and Congress's rivalry contributed to BJP's decisive win. AAP's vote share plummeted to 43.57%.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi greets Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal during a joint press conference in Bengaluru. (PTI file)

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Updated on Feb 09, 2025 08:30 AM IST

ByHT News Desk | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar, New Delhi

Four crucial factors that decided Capital verdict in favour of BJP

Out of power since 1998 in Delhi, the BJP has ended AAP's 11-year rule in the Capital.

BJP national president J P Nadda (left) and BJP Lok Sabha MP Manoj Tiwari congratulate each other after the party won the Delhi assembly elections on Saturday. (Ajay Agarwal/HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 09, 2025 01:26 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha

Delhi election results: How much vote share BJP gained, AAP lost

The Delhi assembly polls witnessed a division of Muslim votes but despite that the AAP managed to win six out of the seven seats.

India's prime minister Narendra Modi (L) waves to supporters as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party's win in the Delhi legislative assembly election.(AFP)

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Updated on Feb 08, 2025 09:47 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

BJP leads on 38 seats, AAP ahead in 27 in early trends

Trends after two rounds showed a close contest in the New Delhi seat between AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and BJP’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma.

BJP supporters celebrate after early trends showed the party leading in the Delhi assembly poll results on Saturday. (PTI Photo)

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Published on Feb 08, 2025 10:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Unlikely to form govt, Delhi Congress banks on bettering poll performance

Despite some glitches, the party is hoping to make a comeback in Badli, Kasturba Nagar, Okhla and Nangloi constituencies

A Congress roadshow in the run-up to Delhi elections. (HT Photo)

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Published on Feb 08, 2025 05:13 AM IST

BySnehil Sinha

Two more exit polls give comfortable lead to BJP in Delhi

To be sure, exit polls are not always accurate, and previous elections have exposed discrepancies in their prediction.

A polling staff carries electronic voting machines (EVM) to a strongroom after voting concluded on Wednesday (ANI)

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Updated on Feb 07, 2025 04:47 AM IST

ByAlok KN Mishra

MNS may lose party symbol, status

MNS chief Raj Thackeray may lose his party symbol and status after the party's poor election performance, failing to win any seats this time.

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Updated on Nov 25, 2024 07:38 AM IST

ByYogesh Naik

Punjab bypoll: BJP’s expansion plans take a hit

Its attempts to woo influential figures from other parties have failed to yield results in the Lok Sabha polls held earlier this year and again in Saturday’s bypoll results

The party not only failed to garner good votes in any of the four contested seats but lost its security deposits on three of them, raising serious questions about its strategy and grassroots presence.

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Updated on Nov 24, 2024 08:18 AM IST

ByRavinder Vasudeva, Chandigarh

Nearly saffron: BJP takes heart from two runner-up finishes in Kashmir

BJP leaders were hopeful that its candidates would do better in the Muslim-majority Kashmir and could open the party’s account for the first time

The BJP finished runner-up in Kashmir two seats. (File)

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Updated on Oct 10, 2024 09:12 AM IST

ByMir Ehsan, Srinagar

Haryana polls: Independent Gopal Sukhomajri stuns with impressive poll debut in Kalka

As counting began, Gopal Sukhomajri, 39, led in the first three rounds of counting, giving some nervous moments to BJP candidate Shakti Rani Sharma and Congress’s Pardeep Chaudhary

Gopal Sukhomajri stands out as the only independent candidate among the total six in the district whose security deposit will not be forfeited, highlighting his surprising support base. (HT File)

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Updated on Oct 09, 2024 09:00 AM IST

ByShailee Dogra, Panchkula

Did other parties, candidates play spoiler for Congress?

An HT analysis shows that the Congress lost 17 ACs due to other parties and candidates playing spoiler.

Former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda upon his arrival to address the media regarding the Haryana Assembly election results, in Rohtak on Tuesday. (PTI)

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Updated on Oct 09, 2024 04:45 AM IST

ByAbhishek Jha, New Delhi

BJP lures swing voters to deepen its Haryana footprint

A statistical analysis of the results besides these headline numbers shows a more comprehensive story of a growing and deepening BJP footprint in the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union health minister JP Nadda at the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday. (PTI)

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Updated on Oct 09, 2024 04:47 AM IST

ByNishant Ranjan

Haryana ka Lal Kejriwal’s AAP fails to open account in his home state

Aam Aadmi Party gets just 1.76% of vote share despite contesting all 90 assembly constituencies; most AAP candidates set to lose their security deposit.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday suffered a humiliating defeat in Haryana, the home state of AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, with most of its candidates set to lose their security deposit. (Vipin Kumar/HT)

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Published on Oct 08, 2024 03:59 PM IST

ByBhavey Nagpal, Karnal

BJP’s former ally JJP faces brunt of anti-incumbency in Haryana

Ex-deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, who had won from Uchana Kalan in 2019 by 47,452 votes, is trailing at sixth place; not a single candidate is even remotely in the contest in any of the 66 constituencies the Jannayak Janta Party is contesting.

The Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janta Party’s vote share came down from 15.32% in the 2019 assembly elections to 0.89% this time. The party got 0.87% votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. (HT file photo)

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Published on Oct 08, 2024 02:36 PM IST

ByHitender Rao

BJP’s membership drive gets tepid response in Punjab

The ongoing membership drive of the Bharatiya Janata Party has received a tepid response in Punjab with the party able to enrol only 1.3 lakh members to date.

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Updated on Sep 13, 2024 05:36 AM IST

ByRavinder Vasudeva, Chandigarh

After poll drubbing, CM Mann says AAP vote share up

Recalling that AAP’s vote share was just 7.5% in 2019 when it won just one Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, chief minister Bhagwant Mann says his party won three seats this time with vote share increasing to 26%.

According to chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, the Congress got 35.5 lakh votes whereas AAP polled 35.2 lakh votes in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

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Updated on Jun 11, 2024 07:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Mohali

BJP’s stock grows in Tamil Nadu as AIADMK loses ground

The last time the BJP contested more seats than the 23 it contested in these elections was in 1996 when it put up candidates on 37 PCs.

The BJP has received 11.3% vote share, its highest in any Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu. (PTI)

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Updated on Jun 07, 2024 06:56 AM IST

BySreedev Krishnakumar, Abhishek Jha

How BSP's votes in 16 Lok Sabha seats could have altered NDA's majority

Lok Sabha election results 2024: Fourteen of these seats were won by the BJP, and two by its allies, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Apna Dal (Soneylal).

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati (HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jun 06, 2024 05:51 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

In dismal Punjab show, BJP takes heart in vote-share spike

Of the 117 assembly segments, the saffron party remains at the top in 23 seats and most of them are urban constituencies.

According to Sunil Jakhar, farmer unions’ protest against the BJP resulted in a counter-consolidation for the party.

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Updated on Jun 06, 2024 08:32 AM IST

ByRavinder Vasudeva, Chandigarh

Barring Simranjit Singh Mann, all SAD (A) candidates forfeit security deposits

However, Mann who contested on the Sangrur seat got 1,87,246 votes registering 18.55% of the total votes polled in the constituency. He came third in terms of the votes tally. He had won the bypoll held in June 2022 from the seat which fell vacant after Bhagwant Mann resigned to take over as the chief minister.

All 10 candidates fielded by Simranjit Singh Mann-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) for the Lok Sabha elections lost their security deposits, except Mann himself. The candidates who forfeited their deposits got a vote share between 1.95% and 7.36%. (Representational image)

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Updated on Jun 06, 2024 07:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

12% dip in BJP vote share in Haryana; Congress registers 15% rise

The BJP’s vote share in October 2019 assembly election was 36.49% when the party could not cross the halfway mark in the 90-member assembly and formed the government after stitching a post-poll alliance with the JJP.

Despite a drubbing at the hustings and its tally coming down to five seats from 10 in 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) vote share in Haryana Lok Sabha elections stayed 3 % ahead of the principal Opposition party, the Congress. (Representational image)

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Updated on Jun 05, 2024 09:14 AM IST

ByPawan Sharma, Chandigarh

How NDA’s electoral math fell apart in Maharashtra

This election was notable for being the first since the vertical splits of the 2 major regional parties in the state — Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena

The BJP saw a decline in the number of seats it won from 23 in 2019 to 10 in 2024(PTI)

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Updated on Jun 05, 2024 03:35 PM IST

BySreedev Krishnakumar, New Delhi

Can BJP raise its Lok Sabha tally despite skewed regional showings?

Because the BJP has a big regional skew in its performance, this is an important consideration for the BJP’s electoral math in the 2024 elections.

In any election, the best metric to measure whether or not a party has increased popular support, is the vote share number. (ANI)

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Updated on Mar 17, 2024 06:36 AM IST

ByNishant Ranjan

Can INDIA bloc defeat BJP? Sachin Pilot reveals plan in exclusive interview

The INDIA alliance will pose a challenge to the BJP, said Sachin Pilot.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sachin Pilot.(PTI file photo)

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Updated on Feb 14, 2024 07:37 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Congress to shortlist names of LS candidates in Chhattisgarh in 10 days: Sachin Pilot

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Published on Jan 28, 2024 08:23 AM IST

PTI |

Himachal: BJP turns focus on Mandi, Shimla parliamentary seat

The top leadership of the BJP in Himachal Pradesh held a two-day meeting chaired by Senior BJP leader Dushyant Gautam in Una which concluded on Monday

The party has deputed its two central ministers to work on its weakness, Union health minister Mansukh Laxmanbhai Mandaviya will overlook Mandi while Union minister for state and industry Som Parkash will oversee Shimla. (Video grab)

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Updated on Jan 16, 2024 06:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Shimla

BJP to target 50 per cent vote share in 2024 Lok Sabha polls

Along with this, the party will run a campaign across the country to connect with new voters.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President JP Nadda during the BJP's national office-bearers meeting, at party headquarters, in New Delhi.(X/Amit Shah)

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Updated on Dec 24, 2023 07:56 AM IST

ANI |

BJP sets sights on 10% increase in vote share in 2024 LS polls

Addressing the BJP’s national and state office-bearers on Saturday, home minister Amit Shah said the party’s performance should leave the Opposition “stunned”.

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Updated on Dec 24, 2023 02:22 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

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In 2025, Delhi had a total of 13,766 polling booths across its 70 assembly constituencies with an average of 686 votes per polling booth.

Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav reflects on the party's assembly poll performance, acknowledging zero wins but a 2% vote share increase.

In the 2025 Delhi assembly election, the AAP and Congress's rivalry contributed to BJP's decisive win. AAP's vote share plummeted to 43.57%.

Out of power since 1998 in Delhi, the BJP has ended AAP's 11-year rule in the Capital.

The Delhi assembly polls witnessed a division of Muslim votes but despite that the AAP managed to win six out of the seven seats.

Trends after two rounds showed a close contest in the New Delhi seat between AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and BJP’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma.

Despite some glitches, the party is hoping to make a comeback in Badli, Kasturba Nagar, Okhla and Nangloi constituencies

To be sure, exit polls are not always accurate, and previous elections have exposed discrepancies in their prediction.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray may lose his party symbol and status after the party's poor election performance, failing to win any seats this time.

Its attempts to woo influential figures from other parties have failed to yield results in the Lok Sabha polls held earlier this year and again in Saturday’s bypoll results

BJP leaders were hopeful that its candidates would do better in the Muslim-majority Kashmir and could open the party’s account for the first time

As counting began, Gopal Sukhomajri, 39, led in the first three rounds of counting, giving some nervous moments to BJP candidate Shakti Rani Sharma and Congress’s Pardeep Chaudhary

An HT analysis shows that the Congress lost 17 ACs due to other parties and candidates playing spoiler.

A statistical analysis of the results besides these headline numbers shows a more comprehensive story of a growing and deepening BJP footprint in the state.

Aam Aadmi Party gets just 1.76% of vote share despite contesting all 90 assembly constituencies; most AAP candidates set to lose their security deposit.

Ex-deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, who had won from Uchana Kalan in 2019 by 47,452 votes, is trailing at sixth place; not a single candidate is even remotely in the contest in any of the 66 constituencies the Jannayak Janta Party is contesting.

The ongoing membership drive of the Bharatiya Janata Party has received a tepid response in Punjab with the party able to enrol only 1.3 lakh members to date.

Recalling that AAP’s vote share was just 7.5% in 2019 when it won just one Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, chief minister Bhagwant Mann says his party won three seats this time with vote share increasing to 26%.

The last time the BJP contested more seats than the 23 it contested in these elections was in 1996 when it put up candidates on 37 PCs.

Lok Sabha election results 2024: Fourteen of these seats were won by the BJP, and two by its allies, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Apna Dal (Soneylal).

Of the 117 assembly segments, the saffron party remains at the top in 23 seats and most of them are urban constituencies.

The BJP’s vote share in October 2019 assembly election was 36.49% when the party could not cross the halfway mark in the 90-member assembly and formed the government after stitching a post-poll alliance with the JJP.

This election was notable for being the first since the vertical splits of the 2 major regional parties in the state — Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena

Because the BJP has a big regional skew in its performance, this is an important consideration for the BJP’s electoral math in the 2024 elections.

The INDIA alliance will pose a challenge to the BJP, said Sachin Pilot.

Congress to shortlist names of LS candidates in Chhattisgarh in 10 days: Sachin Pilot

The top leadership of the BJP in Himachal Pradesh held a two-day meeting chaired by Senior BJP leader Dushyant Gautam in Una which concluded on Monday

Along with this, the party will run a campaign across the country to connect with new voters.

Addressing the BJP’s national and state office-bearers on Saturday, home minister Amit Shah said the party’s performance should leave the Opposition “stunned”.

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