In the last assembly too only three out of the 70 members were women, but all belonged to the Congress -- Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, minister Kiran Walia, and Barkha Singh.
AAP candidate from the Mongolpuri constituency Rakhi Birla, a former journalist with a private news channel, defeated Raj Kumar Chauhan, the PWD minister in the Sheila Dikshit government, by 10,585 votes.
Social activist Veena Anand of AAP defeated BJP's Poornima Vidyarthi by 6,262 votes in the Patel Nagar constituency.
This time, of the 70 women candidates, Congress and BJP fielded 11 women candidates, and the AAP nominated six.
According to electoral roll, a total of 1.19 crore people were eligible to vote, of which over 53 lakh were women and 66 lakh men.
In 2008 elections, a total 57 women candidates were in the fray.
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