JOIN USOnly six women will make it to the 70-member Delhi Assembly. All of them are from the Aam Aadmi Party which has won 67 seats in Delhi.
In this election, 63 women candidates were fielded as against 71 contestants in the 2013 Delhi Assembly elections.
The six winning candidates are Rakhi Birla from Mangolpuri, Bandana Kumari from Shalimar Bagh, Bhavna Gaur from Palam, Sarita Singh from Rohtas Nagar, Alka Lamba from Chandni Chowk and Pramila Tokas from RK Puram.
In 2013, the three women candidates elected to the Delhi Assembly were from the AAP: Kumari, Birla and Veena Anand. Krishna Nagar had attracted attention after high-profile candidate Kiran Bedi was fielded from the seat.
The former IPS officer had promised voters on women’s security during campaigning.
However, Bedi lost to AAP’s S K Bagga by a margin of 2,277 votes.
In New Delhi, debutante Nupur Sharma from BJP pitted against Arvind Kejriwal lost by 31,583 votes.
Congress party’s Kiran Walia, a former state minister, bagged only 4,781 votes.
President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee who fought the elections on a Congress ticket from Greater Kailash seat failed to strike a chord with voters in the constituency.
A dancer and an activist, Mukherjee lost to ex-transport minister Saurabh Bhardwaj by 51,487 votes.
The Congress was banking to reclaim the lost vote share with the star candidate but most voters dismissed her as a “parachute candidate”.
Meanwhile, Krishna Tirath, who quit the Congress to join BJP before the elections, lost to AAP’s Hazari Lal Chauhan in Patel Nagar.
Rakhi Birla, a former journalist who held the women and child development ministry during the AAP’s 49-day term, bagged 60,534 votes from Mangolpuri.
She defeated Congress party’s Raj Kumar Chauhan by 22,699 votes.
In Shalimar Bagh, AAP’s Bandana Kumari defeated BJP’s Rekha Gupta by 10,978 votes.
Tokas, who has earlier been an independent councillor from Munirka, won the RK Puram seat by over 19,000 votes. She defeated BJP’s Anil Sharma.
In Chandni Chowk, which has been a Congress stronghold, AAP’s Alka Lamba. Lamba, a former president of Congress-affiliated student wing National Students Union of India, defeated BJP’s Suman Kumar Gupta by 18,287 votes.
In Palam, AAP’s Bhavna Gaur defeated five-time BJP winner Dharam Dev Solanki by over 30,000 votes.