Delhi election results 2025: How are star candidates faring

Celebration outside Delhi BJP office in New Delhi on February 8, 2025. 
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Arvind Kejriwal, former Delhi Chief Minister and leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), lost to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Parvesh Sahib Singh from the New Delhi constituency in the 2025 Delhi Assembly election. The results of the February 5 election were announced on Saturday (February 8, 2025). Congress candidate Sandeep Dikshit was third in the constituency and has conceded defeat.

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The 2025 Delhi Assembly election results are slowly trickling in, as the BJP crossed the majority mark, maintaining a comfortable lead over AAP.

The Hindu takes a look at some key contestants of the 2025 Delhi Assembly election.

Chief Minister Atishi won the Kalkaji constituency over BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri, and Congress leader Alka Lamba was a distant third. Mr. Bidhuri is a former MP, who made headlines in 2023 after he used crude and communal slurs against Bahujan Samaj Party member Kunwar Danish Ali on the floor of the Lok Sabha. He did not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

AAP candidate Manish Sisodia conceded his defeat from the Jangpura constituency to BJP candidate Tarvinder Singh Marwah in the Delhi elections. Mr. Sisodia was the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi until February 2023. He spent 17 months in prison without trial for money laundering charges linked to the Excise Policy. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court in August 2024.

Kapil Mishra, yet another firebrand BJP leader who was formerly with the AAP, won the Karawal Nagar constituency by a significant margin. Mr. Mishra won the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election from the same constituency for AAP and was subsequently inducted into the Cabinet as the Water Resources Minister but sacked in 2017 for “anti-party activities”. He joined the BJP in 2019 and was appointed vice-president of its Delhi unit four years later. He gained notoriety after allegedly making hate speeches in the run-up to the north-east Delhi riots in February 2020, which claimed over 50 lives.

Mohan Singh Bisht, BJP candidate from Mustafabad, has also won. Mr. Bisht was the previous BJP candidate from Karawal Nagar and had been winning the seat except for in 2015 when he lost to Mr. Mishra who was then an AAP candidate. The replacement had caused drama within the BJP, with Mr. Bisht threatening to contest as an independent candidate. After his name was dropped, Mr. Bisht had issued a warning to his party saying, “You have challenged the samaj [Uttarakhand community], not Mohan Singh Bisht. The BJP will lose at least 8-10 seats because of this decision, including Karawal Nagar, Burari, Mustafabad and Gokalpuri.”

According to the 2011 census, of the 1.67 crore Delhi’s population, over 72 lakh were migrants. “We [migrants] made this city our home, and it belongs to every migrant. They deserve better facilities,” Mr. Bisht, who hails from Uttarakhand, had said.

BJP candidate Arvinder Singh Lovely, who was once the State President of Congress’s Delhi unit, won the Gandhi Nagar constituency.

AAP candidate Amanatullah Khan is leading in the Okhla seat. However, other party candidates don’t seem to be doing too well – Avadh Ojha lost the Patparganj seat to BJP’s Ravinder Singh Negi, Satyendar Jain lost the Shakur Basti constituency, and Saurabh Bhardwaj lost Greater Kailash.

Vijender Gupta, who was elected the leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly in August 2024, is all set to win the Rohini constituency. He is leading over his nearest competitor, AAP’s Pardeep Mittal, by more than 37,000 votes.