With just a week to go for the Delhi elections, three time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit could face her worst-ever electoral defeat by newcomer Arvind Kejriwal, if a recent survey is to be believed.

With just a week to go for the Delhi elections, three time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit could face her worst-ever electoral defeat by newcomer Arvind Kejriwal, if a recent survey is to be believed.

The survey, commissioned by the Economic Times and conducted between 22-24 November, shows that AAP convener Kejriwal is likely to win the New Delhi seat defeating Dikshit by more than two times her vote share.

"Kejriwal stood to win more than 40 percent of the votes - followed by BJP candidate Vijender Gupta (21 percent) and then Dikshit (20 percent) at third position," the ET report states.

While there is no doubt that the upcoming polls will be a close fight between the Congress, BJP and AAP, a defeat for Dikshit, who is often considered to be more acceptable to Delhi than her party, will send shockwaves across the political spectrum signalling a shift in the political game, especially with 2014 polls barely six months away.

According to a Tehelka report, The New Delhi constituency has around 1.18 lakh voters, of which 60 percent are government servants or their relatives, a segment the AAP claims to have influenced largely.

Kejriwal was favoured by 49 percent of voters aged between 18 and 25 years.

An earlier poll conducted by CNN-IBN also suggested that Dikshit was losing popularity as the CM of the state, with rising prices and corruption being among the top issues the incumbent government is facing.

Just 29 percent of the voters polled want to give Dikshit another chance, compared to 49 percent of the voters in 2008. Over 60 percent of the voters want Sheila Dikshit to pack her bags and leave this time.

The same survey shows that AAP has emerged as a formidable force with 25 percent of the people backing Arvind Kejriwal for the post of chief minister, with Dikshit commanding just 16 percent of the popular support, while only 10 percent of the voters favour BJP's Vijay Goel for the post. The BJP's actual chief ministerial nominee, Harsh Vardhan, has got just two percent support. However, 28 percent of respondents favour none of the contestants.

Will Dikshit be able to pull off a record fourth term? Will AAP's Arvind Kejriwal trounce Dikshit and give Delhi politics a whole new flavour? Come 8 December and we will know.