Delhi election results 2025: Winners and losers | India News – The Times of India

In a historic political shift, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to form government in Delhi after 27 years, securing a commanding two-thirds majority in the assembly elections 2025. The BJP’s resounding victory ends over a decade of governance by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by Arvind Kejriwal.
The last BJP government in Delhi served from 1993 to 1998, marking this win as a significant comeback for the party. Of the 70 assembly constituencies, the BJP clinched 48 seats, while AAP managed to secure only 22. This landslide victory saw several prominent AAP leaders, including Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, former minister Satyendra Jain, and Saurabh Bharadwaj, losing their constituencies.
In a closely watched contest, Kejriwal lost the New Delhi assembly seat to BJP’s Parvesh Verma by a margin of 4,089 votes. Meanwhile, Congress’ score remained zero as the party failed to secure any seat.
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Here’s are the winners and losers in the Delhi assembly elections 2025
Narendra Modi
Yet again, he was BJP’s mascot, chief campaigner and the man who had to compensate for the local party unit’s lack of a formidable figure. That he led BJP to a big victory proves he remains a big vote-getter and a great motivator for party cadre. He adroitly wooed both lower-income groups and middle classes. His high-decibel campaign speeches against AAP’s ‘corruption’ framed BJP’s charge against AAP chief. The Delhi victory, coming on top of BJP’s Haryana and Maharashtra wins, has pretty much restored Brand Modi, which had taken a few knocks after Lok Sabha elections.
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Amit Shah
So, that’s one more job off his ‘to-do’ list. Delhi had eluded Modi’s BJP since 2014 and Shah had strategised hard both in 2015 and 2020. He did it again this time, framing a broad strategy as well as fixing the nuts and bolts. Getting the party cadre to believe that Kejriwal was beatable was not easy. But, helped by Modi’s aggressive dubbing of Aam Aadmi Party as “AAP-da” (disaster), he managed to turn the mood around. His decision to field Pravesh Verma against Kejriwal was a master stroke typical of BJP’s no.2.
Arvind Kejriwal
Humble, accessible, fiercely honest, a new kind of politician who promises a new kind of politics. That was his image in 2013, when he burst onto the political scene. Now? Hubristic, yet another leader who allegedly uses govt for political funding, a politician who’s lost touch with those who made him a success, seemingly uncaring that the city he governed became a byword for urban mismanagement. Kejriwal’s rise to power and prominence was as spectacular as his fall from grace. That he — humiliatingly — couldn’t even RETAIN the seat he’s won three times since 2013 makes it even worse.
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Manish Sisodia
His star rose with Kejriwal’s. But he had an early intimation of trouble in the last assembly polls. He had just scraped through in Patparganj in 2020 and shifted to Jangpura this time. That made him look like he was running away. The defeat in Jangpura has dealt him a severe political blow. Like it’s for Kejriwal, his successes — supposedly the brain behind AAP’s transformation of govt schools in Delhi — are now a distant memory. Not a mass politician on his own, what happens to his political career depends entirely on whether Kejriwal can recover from this defeat.

Atishi
Daughter of academics and plucked out of obscurity by Kejriwal, she became a media star for AAP, followed by her appointment as an advisor to the then-deputy CM Sisodia. She was the SAFE choice for Kejriwal when he had to GIVE UP CMship after being sent to jail. No one took her seriously in that job, including many in AAP. She was CM for 135 days and could do nothing to change the perception of non-governance by AAP. Her win, after a big scare during counting, is of little consolation to either her or her party.
Rahul And Priyanka
For the Gandhis, nothing’s worked since Congress turned in an impressive show in Lok Sabha elections. Delhi is the third election loss since LS, and 2025 is the third time Congress has scored a duck in the city. Brother and sister campaigned in the capital but made little difference to overall results. But, funnily, all’s not bad for the Gandhis. That Congress may have cost AAP votes and that AAP was beaten roundly is, first, revenge for Congress and, second, a buffer against other regional satraps’ critiques. Had AAP won, TMC, SP would have come down hard on Gandhis and their party.