<p>Delhi is all set to go to polls on February 5. All the 70 seats will have a single phase polling with the results scheduled to be announced on February 8. </p><p>Before we go into the ensuing <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/delhi-assembly-elections-2025/3">Delhi Assembly Elections 2025</a>, let us dig deep into the political history of the national capital.</p><p><strong>When was the first Delhi Elections held</strong></p><p>That brings us to the vexed question as to when did Delhi go to the polls for the first time.</p><p>As per the official records, Delhi first went to the polls in 1952, but it was an interim arrangement as the States Reorganisation Commission Act was commissioned a year later.</p><p>Initially the Delhi administration was vested with a council. </p><p>However, the next legislative Assembly elections in Delhi were held only in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as National Capital Territory of Delhi by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Indian constitution.</p><p>The first election to the 70-member Assembly was held on November 6, 1993 with 61.75 % voter turnout recorded as per Election Commission of India records. </p><p>In the results that were declared a few dats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) romped to power by winning a staggering 49 seats.</p><p>Senior BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana, who won from Moti Nagar constituency became the first chief minister of independent Delhi. </p><p>Congress, which was the ruling party at Centre at that time, had to play second fiddle and came a distant second with 14 seats in the Assembly and had to be contend with the main opposition party status in the House. </p><p>Janata Dal (which was not spilt at that time) won four seats while three seats went to independents. </p><p>As many as five parties -- CPI(M), CPI, All India Forward Block, BSP and Shiv Sena drew a blank with most of them losing their security deposits in the seats contested. </p>
<p>Delhi is all set to go to polls on February 5. All the 70 seats will have a single phase polling with the results scheduled to be announced on February 8. </p><p>Before we go into the ensuing <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/delhi-assembly-elections-2025/3">Delhi Assembly Elections 2025</a>, let us dig deep into the political history of the national capital.</p><p><strong>When was the first Delhi Elections held</strong></p><p>That brings us to the vexed question as to when did Delhi go to the polls for the first time.</p><p>As per the official records, Delhi first went to the polls in 1952, but it was an interim arrangement as the States Reorganisation Commission Act was commissioned a year later.</p><p>Initially the Delhi administration was vested with a council. </p><p>However, the next legislative Assembly elections in Delhi were held only in 1993, when Union Territory of Delhi was formally declared as National Capital Territory of Delhi by the Sixty-ninth Amendment to the Indian constitution.</p><p>The first election to the 70-member Assembly was held on November 6, 1993 with 61.75 % voter turnout recorded as per Election Commission of India records. </p><p>In the results that were declared a few dats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) romped to power by winning a staggering 49 seats.</p><p>Senior BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana, who won from Moti Nagar constituency became the first chief minister of independent Delhi. </p><p>Congress, which was the ruling party at Centre at that time, had to play second fiddle and came a distant second with 14 seats in the Assembly and had to be contend with the main opposition party status in the House. </p><p>Janata Dal (which was not spilt at that time) won four seats while three seats went to independents. </p><p>As many as five parties -- CPI(M), CPI, All India Forward Block, BSP and Shiv Sena drew a blank with most of them losing their security deposits in the seats contested. </p>
