Delhi MCD Election Results 2022 Updates: Nearly 55% women among AAP winners

• POOR SUPPORT AAP: Strong support from disadvantaged sections in illegal colonies and slums like Inderpuri, Sangam Vihar, Tughlaqabad and Kalyanpuri. They benefited from free power and water, improved schools and neighbourhood mohalla clinics
• MIXED VERDICT BY MINORITIES: Congress won in riot-affected areas of northeast Delhi and Okhla where Kejriwal’s silence on the riots and Bilkis Bano were factors but Muslims in Ballimaran, Chandni Mahal and Delhi Gate voted for AAP
• MIDDLE CLASS DIVIDED: AAP won in areas like Lajpat Nagar, Andrews Ganj, Hauz Khas, Malviya Nagar, Green Park, R K Puram, Vasant Vihar, C R Park and Mayur Vihar while BJP won Greater Kailash, 2 Dwarka wards, 4 Rohini wards, Punjabi Bagh, Rajouri Garden and Vasant Kunj
• POORVANCHALIS SPLIT: BJP managed to do well in Sonia Vihar, Karawal Nagar East, Karawal Nagar West and Nehru Vihar, which have a dominant Poorvanchali population, while AAP claimed Kirari, Burari and Ghonda. However, Congress managed to gain in Nihal Vihar and Shastri Park
• CORRUPTION CLAIMS: AAP promised to rid the corporation of corruption, saying Arvind Kejriwal was ‘kattar imandar’ and even promised funds for RWAs. BJP countered it with cases against dy CM Manish Sisodia and minister Satyendar Jain and LG ordering inquiries into AAP govt initiatives
• LEADERS VS LEADER: BJP drafted a battery of central ministers, MPs and chief ministers in the campaign with PM Narendra Modi looming over it all. The CM campaigned very little but there was never any doubt that he was the face of the part
• DOUBLE-ENGINE PITCH: CM countered BJP’s ‘double engine’ pitch with the slogan, ‘Kejriwal ki sarkar, Kejriwal ka parshad’ — his guarantee of work getting done
• CHOICE OF CANDIDATES: BJP fared better than expected as many candidates were old hands, with a local connect. Familiarity matters in such local-level elections

• MCD came into existence on April 7, 1958, under an Act of Parliament
• It is governed by Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 and subsequent amendments
• After trifurcation in 2012, MCD was split into east, north and south corporations
• On April 18 this year, the three civic bodies were reunified into a single entity after DMC (Amendment) Act, 2022 came into effect
• Unification officially took place on May 22
• Thereafter, the number of MCD wards was reduced from 272 to 250, following another notification from the ministry of home affairs on September 10

Ending 15 years of BJP’s hegemony, Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday captured the Civic Centre, winning 134 seats in the 250-member reunified Municipal Corporation of Delhi and people’s confidence that it can get the city rid of the perennial problems of poor sanitation and corruption in the civic agency.

Seeking the “blessings” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) got a clear mandate in the MCD polls on Wednesday, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal sought the support of the central government to make Delhi better and urged councillors across party lines to work together.

Though the municipal election results were clearly in favour of AAP, there was asymmetric voting trend, especially in the wards falling under the assembly constituencies of party stalwarts with large following.Deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s constituency Patparganj was one such area, where three out of four wards were grabbed by BJP. Among the winners was Ravinder Singh Negi, who defeated AAP’s Kuldeep Bhandari by over 2,000 votes at Vinod Nagar. In the 2020 assembly elections, Negi had given Sisodia a tough fight, losing by a small margin of 3,207 votes.

More than half of the candidates who sought re-election to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have lost their seats, reflecting an anti-incumbency trend. Out of the 84 candidates, including Independents, only 36 won on Wednesday.

After a resounding victory in the MCD election, Delhi's deputy CM and AAP leader Manish Sisodia alleged that the BJP was trying to poach newly-elected AAP councillors. In a tweet, Sosidia said none of the councillors will fall prey to such tactics.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday lost the MCD polls to the AAP in a close contest, but managed to raise its vote share by 3 per cent as compared to 2017 civic body elections in the national capital. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections held on Sunday with a comfortable majority, bagging 134 of the 250 wards. The vote share of the ruling party in Delhi also soared from 21.09 per cent in 2017 municipal polls to 42.05 per cent, as per figures of the State Election Commission.