New Delhi Election Outcome 2025: BJP’s Parvesh Verma Defeats AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal By Over 3,000 Votes – News18

Final Up to date:February 08, 2025, 15:00 IST

BJP’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma defeated Arvind Kejriwal within the 2025 Delhi Meeting elections from the New Delhi constituency. Verma has been a two-term MP from West Delhi.

BJP’s Parvesh Verma (L)/Arvind Kejriwal (R) (Photographs: PTI)

Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma defeated Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) convenor and Delhi’s former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi Meeting Constituency by greater than 3,000 votes on Saturday, because the votes for the Delhi meeting elections had been counted.

Verma was main in opposition to Kejriwal because the counting of digital votes started put up 8.30 am. Nevertheless, the previous Chief Minister took the lead in opposition to Verma in between. After practically an hour, BJP’s Verma once more left Kejriwal behind.

Because the outcomes had been declared, Verma was seen celebrating within the nationwide capital.

PARVESH VERMA, HIS FAMILY SPEAK TO MEDIA

Chatting with reporters after his win, Parvesh Sahib Singh mentioned, “This authorities, which goes to be fashioned in Delhi, will deliver Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient to Delhi. I give credit score for this victory to PM Modi. I thank the individuals of Delhi. That is the victory of PM Modi and the individuals of Delhi.”

Verma’s daughter, Sanidhi, whereas chatting with reporters mentioned, “All of us are very completely satisfied. I thank the individuals of New Delhi for giving us an opportunity to serve them for the subsequent 5 years. We have now all the time accepted the posts given to him by the celebration, this time too we’ll settle for it fortunately.”

Additionally commenting on his win, Verma’s sister, Rachna Sindhu, mentioned, “I’m completely satisfied and the ladies of the constituency are additionally completely satisfied as they’ve proven belief in Parvesh. We labored in these areas the place we wanted to do a door-to-door marketing campaign. The ladies aren’t secure in Delhi – so what they’ll do with free bus service? The ladies noticed a hope within the BJP.”

WHO IS PARVESH VERMA?

As a member of the BJP, Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma served two phrases as an MP for West Delhi. In 2014 he was elected to the sixteenth Lok Sabha and re-elected in 2019 for the seventeenth Lok Sabha with the highest-ever margin of victory within the historical past of Delhi, a margin of 578,486 votes.

He contested the Mehrauli Vidhan Sabha constituency within the 2013 meeting election and defeated MP Yoganand Shastri, speaker of the Delhi Vidhan Sabha.

NEW DELHI CONSTITUENCY: OTHER BIG NAMES

Apart from Arvind Kejriwal, who was looking for his fourth consecutive time period from the constituency, and BJP’s Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, different outstanding names from the constituency included Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit – the son of Sheila Dikshit, who served as Delhi’s Chief Minister for 15 years.

The Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP)’s Virender can also be contesting as a candidate from the New Delhi Meeting Constituency. Virender is 27 years previous and his complete belongings quantity to Rs 27,000, whereas liabilities stand at Rs 0.

NEW DELHI CONSTITUENCY: TRENDS UNTIL 9.30 AM

Till 9.30 am, the full votes counted from the New Delhi Meeting constituency had been 4,943, and the BJP was main by 74 votes.

Parvesh Verma had bagged 2,272 votes

Arvind Kejriwal had bagged 2,198 votes

Sandeep Dixit had bagged 404 votes

NEW DELHI CONSTITUENCY: PREVIOUS ELECTION RESULTS

2020: Arvind Kejriwal gained the New Delhi Meeting Constituency, defeating BJPs’ Sunil Kumar Yadav by a margin of 21,697 votes, which was 28.35 per cent of the full votes forged for the seat. The AAP had a vote share of 61.1 per cent in 2020 on this seat.

2015: Arvind Kejriwal gained this seat after defeating BJP’s Nupur Sharma by a margin of 31,583 votes, which was 35.4 per cent of the full votes forged for the seat. The AAP had a vote share of 64.14 per cent in 2015 on this seat.

2013: Arvind Kejriwal gained this seat after he defeated Congress’s Sheila Dikshit by a margin of 25,864 votes, which was 31.24 per cent of the full votes forged for the seat. AAP had a vote share of 53.46 per cent in 2013 on this seat.

2008: Sheila Dikshit of Congress gained on this seat defeating BJP’s Vijay Jolly by a margin of 13,982 votes, which was 18.35 per cent of the full votes forged for the seat. INC had a vote share of 52.2 per cent in 2008 on this seat.

NEW DELHI CONSTITUENCY: FULL LIST OF CONTESTING CANDIDATES

A complete of 23 candidates had been within the fray for the New Delhi Meeting seat within the 2025 Delhi Meeting election. The candidates are listed beneath.

Arvind Kejriwal (AAP)

Naresh Kumar (APP)

Santosh Rai (ANBP)

Virender (BSP)

Parvesh Sahib Singh (BJP)

Munish Kumar Raizada (BHLP)

Ishwar Chand (BHDP)

Sangha Nand Bauddh (BHS)

Arun Kumar Sharma (DEJP)

Ravinder Singh Rawat (HJSP)

Haider Ali (IND)

Sanjay Rawat (IND)

Bhawana (IND)

Pankaj Sharma (IND)

Abhilasha (IND)

Anuradha Rana (IND)

Anita (IND)

Sandeep Dikshit (INC)

Duggirala Nageswara Rao (JJSP)

Mukesh Jain (RWJPS)

Nitya Nand Singh (RMP)

Santosh Kumar (RRP)

Jagdeesh Prasad (SBVP)

Within the 2020 Meeting election, there have been 28 candidates from the New Delhi Meeting constituency, they’re as listed beneath.

Arvind Kejriwal (AAP)

Ram Gulam (BSP)

Romesh Sabharwal (INC)

Sunil Kumar Yadav (BJP)

Ajay Tiwari (RRP)

Aditi Sharma (HAMS)

Amit Sharma (VBP)

Ashok Agyani (BSNP)

MU Dua (ANP)

Narender Kumar Bansal (BLPGL)

Pratap Chandra (RRP)

Mahender Singh (PPID)

Meena Suryawanshi (RPIA)

Professor Ramesh Narain Singh (VSP)

Rajbir (BDP)

Shailendra Singh (AJAP)

Sampurna Nand Uniyal (JAVP)

Kirti Singh Panwar (IND)

Daya Shankar Agrawal (IND)

Yogender Singh (IND)

Ramesh Kumar Khatri (IND)

Rahul Kumar (IND)

Rahul Beniwal (IND)

Vikas Sharma (IND)

Shiv Kumar (IND)

Sanni Kaushik (IND)

Sant Dharmveer Chotiwala (IND)

Sandeep Srivastava (IND)

Within the 2015 Meeting election, there have been 13 candidates from this constituency, as listed beneath.

Arvind Kejriwal (AAP)

Nupur Sharma (BJP)

Kiran Walia (INC)

Swami Om Ji (ABHM)

Anil Kumar (IND)

Rakesh Kumar (BSP)

Ravi Kumar (NCP)

Sunil Kumar Kandukuri (IND)

Mohd Siraj Sahil (SASAPT)

Sanjeev Chhibber (NADP)

Sandeep Srivastava (IND)

Ajit (GAAP)

Professor RN Singh (VSP)

In 2013, the variety of contestants from this seat was 17, as listed beneath.

Arvind Kejriwal (AAP)

Sheila Dikshit (INC)

Vijender Kumar (BJP)

Ritu Singh (BSP)

Anita (SPI)

Laxmi Narayan (IND)

GS Mani (DMDK)

Lila Devi (IND)

Jagdish Kumar Ghai (IND)

Sanjay Kumar (RAJSP)

Ashish Kapur (IND)

Asad Miyan (IND)

Anand Kumar Rai (IND)

Raj Kumar Parihar (DJP)

Shiv Kumar Tiwari (ABHM)

Shankar Shah (RVNP)

KP Sankaran Menon (RBHP)

These 25 candidates contested from New Delhi in 2008, as listed beneath.

Sheila Dikshit (INC)

Vijay Jolly (BJP)

Rajiv Singh (BSP)

Brij Mohan Upreti (IND)

Ramanand Madhwal (IND)

Om Prakash (SP)

Harsh Malhotra (JKNPP)

Anita Singh (RKJP)

Prithvi Chandra Baitha (IND)

Hariom Sharma (IND)

Nirupma Sharma (IND)

Mukesh Kumar Saxena (ABHM)

Kusum Bahl (IND)

Pradeep Kumar Singh (LJP)

Ved Pal Shastri (IND)

Lila Devi (JDU)

Shakeel Ahmed (RBCP)

Abhishek Kumar Rao (LKPT)

Mohamad Tahir (AIMF)

Niraja Jha (RVNP)

Priti Vadera (IND)

Lakshmi Bhardwaj (IND)

Kalpana Gupta (RPIA)

Karam Chand Lathwal (BPC)

Nimmi Sayyed (NJD)

ABOUT NEW DELHI ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY

New Delhi is among the 70 meeting (Vidhan Sabha) constituencies in Delhi. This constituency is situated within the South Delhi area and will be labeled as: City and falls within the New Delhi district of Delhi.

The reservation standing of the New Delhi Meeting Constituency is – Normal: 40.

Votes for the Delhi elections in 2025 had been forged on February 5 and the counting was undertaken on February 9.

NEW DELHI CONSTITUENCY: DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE

There have been a complete of 1,09,022 registered voters on the electoral rolls for the 2025 Meeting election in New Delhi Meeting constituency, of which 58,950 had been male, 50,071 feminine and 1 of the third gender.

Within the 2020 Meeting elections, there have been a complete of 1,45,901 registered voters, of which 79,799 had been male, 66,101 feminine and 1 from the third gender.

Within the 2015 Meeting elections, there have been a complete of 1,37,924 registered voters, of which 76,015 had been male, 61,828 feminine and eight from the third gender.

Within the 2013 elections, there have been a complete of 1,24,107 registered voters on this constituency, of which 68,479 had been male and 55,554 feminine.

Within the 2008 polls, the variety of complete electors was 1,35,691 which included 75,085 male and 60,591 feminine voters.

The variety of service voters on this Meeting constituency was 0 in 2020, 73 in 2015, 72 in 2013 and 15 in 2008.

The voters gender ratio (variety of feminine voters per 1000 male voters) on this constituency in 2025 was 849, in 2020 it was 828, 813 in 2015, 811 in 2013 and 807 in 2008.

NEW DELHI CONSTITUENCY: THE LOK SABHA RESULTS

Within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP was the main celebration from this meeting phase. The New Delhi Lok Sabha seat was gained by BJP’s Bansuri Swaraj after she defeated the AAP’s Somnath Bharti.

Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP led on this meeting phase. The New Delhi Lok Sabha seat was gained by Meenakshi Lekhi of the BJP after she beat Ajay Makan of the Congress.

In 2014, the BJP was forward on this explicit meeting phase and the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency was gained by Meenakshi Lekhi of the BJP as she defeated AAP’s Ashish Khetan.

Within the 2009 Parliamentary elections, Congress was the main celebration within the New Delhi meeting phase whereas the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency was gained by Congress’s Ajay Makan, defeating Vijay Goel of the BJP.

NEW DELHI ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY: VOTER TURNOUT

In accordance with information launched by the Election Fee of India, within the 2025 Delhi Meeting elections, the estimated voter turnout on this Delhi constituency was 56.41 per cent.

In 2020, this seat registered a turnout of 52.15 per cent, whereas it was 64.72 per cent in 2015, 66.93 per cent in 2013 and 56.20 per cent in 2008.

The estimated turnout in 2025 is 04.26 per cent in comparison with the 2020 turnout.

NEW DELHI ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY: WINNER VOTESHARE

Within the 2020 Delhi Meeting elections, Arvind Kejriwal had a vote share of 61.1 per cent on this seat. Within the 2015 Meeting elections, Arvind Kejriwal acquired a vote share of 64.14 per cent.

In 2013, Arvind Kejriwal of AAP secured a vote share of 53.46 per cent on this constituency. Within the 2008 Meeting elections, Sheila Dikshit of the Congress acquired a vote share of 52.2 per cent in New Delhi.

NEW DELHI ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY: POLLING DATES

New Delhi Meeting constituency went to the polls in Section 1 of the 2025 Delhi Meeting elections on Wednesday, February 5, 2025. The counting of votes was taken on February 8, 2025.

Within the 2020 state Meeting elections, this seat voted in Section 1 on Saturday, February 8, 2020, and the outcomes had been declared on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.

Within the 2015 state Meeting elections, this seat voted in Section 1 on Saturday, February 7, 2015, and the outcomes had been declared on Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

Within the 2013 polls, this constituency voted in Section 1 on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, and the outcomes had been declared on Sunday, December 8, 2013.

In 2008, New Delhi voted in Section 1 on Saturday, November 29, 2008, and the outcomes had been declared on Monday, December 8, 2008.