Cong polls 20% votes more than BJP in Delhi

It was a stunning victory for Congress in the national capital which crushed BJP by polling 20 per cent votes more than its main opponent will all its candidates registered whopping victory margins.     

Congress polled 12,58,318 votes more than BJP in the seven seats with all its candidates except South Delhi winner Ramesh Kumar registering a victory margin of over one lakh.     

The party polled 57.16 per cent votes, a dramatic rise of 15 per cent from the November Assembly elections, or 32,85,121 votes out of 57,47,000 votes cast on May seven when the city went to polls to elect its seven MPs.     

BJP accounted for 20,26,803 votes in the seven constituencies, which was around 35.26 per cent, down from Assembly polls vote share of around 40 per cent.     

The vote share of BSP witnessed a drastic decrease of about nine per cent in the Lok Sabha elections compared to that of the November Assembly elections. The party's vote share dropped to 5.43 per cent this time from 14.23 per cent in the Assembly elections last year.     

From garnering 8.68 lakh votes last November when the BSP opened account in Delhi Assembly with two seats, the party ended up with just 3.07 lakh votes this time.      

Union Ministers Kapil Sibal and Ajay Maken, DPCC chief J P Aggarwal, Mahabal Mishra, Krishna Tirath, and Sandeep Dikshit pipped their BJP rivals by over a lakh votes and garnering more than 50 per cent vote share except for its South Delhi candidate Ramesh Kumar.