Delhi Election 2020 Date and Schedule

The Election Commission of India has sounded the bugle of 70-member Delhi assembly election. The much-awaited single-phase assembly polls are scheduled to be held on February 8 and counting of votes will take place on February 11. The model code of conduct has come into effect after the announcement of the election schedule.

Here is the schedule for the single-phase Delhi assembly polls announced by the Election Commission of India on Monday, January 6, 2020.

Election Episode Date Notification to be issued on January 14, 2020 Last Date for filing nomination January 21, 2020 Date of scrutiny nominations January 22, 2020 Last Date for Withdrawal of candidature January 24, 2020 Date of Election February 8, 2020 Date of Result February 11, 2020

Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Arora, whose tenure is going to end on February 22, said that he had held a meeting with Chief Secretary and senior officials last month about holding elections.

Delhi Elections Candidates List 2020

AC. No. AC. Name AAP BJP INC BSP IND 1 Narela Sharad Chauhan Neel Daman Khatri Siddharth Kundu Mahender Chaudhary Aditi 2 Burari Sanjeev Jha 3 Timarpur Dilip Pandey Surendra Singh Bittu Amar Lata Sangwan 4 Adarsh Nagar Pawan Sharma Raj Kumar Bhatia Mukesh Kumar Goel Chander Pal Vijay Kr Aggarwal 5 Badli Ajesh Yadav Vijay Kumar Bhagat Devender Yadav Laxman Kumar Vikash Kumar 6 Rithala Mahinder Goyal Manish Chaudhary Pradeep Kumar Pandey 7 Bawana Jai Bhagwan Upkar Ravindra Kumar Indraj Surender Kumar 8 Mundka Dharampal Lakra Azad Singh Naresh Kumar 9 Kirari Rituraj Jha Anil Jha - 10 Sultan pur Majra Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat Ram Chander Chawriya Jai Kishan Neelam Gayatri 11 Nangloi Jat Raghuvinder Shokeen Suman Lata Mandeep Singh Sandeep Rakesh Sharma 12 Mangol Puri Rakhi Bidlan Karam Singh Karma Rajesh Lilotia 13 Rohini Rajesh Nama Bansiwala Vijendra Gupta Sumesh Gupta 14 Shalimar Bagh Bandana Kumari Rekha Gupta J. S. Nayol Mohit Shehnaz 15 Shakur Basti Satyendra Jain Suresh Chand Vats Dev Raj Arora Asha Ram 16 Tri Nagar Jitender Tomar Tilak Ram Gupta Kamal Kant Sharma Aruna Baljeet 17 Wazirpur Rajesh Gupta Dr Mahender Nagpal Harikishan Jindal Mustqim Ahmed Balwant Kumar Parjapati 18 Model Town Akhilesh Pati Tripathi Kapil Mishra Akansha Ola 19 Sadar Bazar Som Dutt Jay Prakash Satbir Sharma 20 Chandni Chowk Parlad Singh Sawhney Suman Kumar Gupta Alka Lamba 21 Matia Mahal Shoaih Ighal Ravinder Gupta Mirza Javed Ali Tej Ram Shoaibuddin 22 Ballimaran lmran I lussain Lata Sodhi Haroon Yusuf 23 Karol Bagh Vishesh Ravi Yogender Chandolia Gourav Kumar Lekhraj Jatav Rahul Bharti 24 Patel Nagar Raaj Kumar Anand Parvesh Ratan Krishna Tirath 25 Moti Nagar Shiv Charan God Subhash Sachdeva Ramesh Popli Nitya Nand Singh Narender Goel 26 Madipur Girish Soni Kailash Sankhla Jai Prakash Panwar 27 Rajouri Garden Dhanwati Chandela Ramesh Khanna Amandeep Singh Harchint Singh Arora Manish Chandila 28 Hari Nagar Rajkumari Dhillon Tejendra Pal Bagga -Surender Setia 29 Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh Rajeev Babbar -Raminder Singh Bamrah 30 Janakpuri Rajesh Rishi Ashish Sood Radhika Khera 31 Vikaspuri Mahinder Yadav Sanjay Singh Mukesh Sharma Krishna Thakur 32 Uttam Nagar Naresh Balyan Krishna Gehlot - 33 Dwarka Vinay Kumar Mishra Parduymn Rajput Adarsh Shastri Ashok Gautam Singh Bihari 34 Matiala Gulab Singh Yadav Rajesh Gahlot Sumesh Shokeen Sher Singh 35 Najafgarh Kailash Gahlot Ajeet Singh Sahab Singh Manoj Kumar Raghunandan 36 Bijwasan BS Joon Sat Prakash Rana Parveen Rana Deepak Kameshwar Thakur 37 Palam Bhavna Gaur Vijay Pandit - 38 Delhi Cantt Virender Singh Kadian Manish Singh Sandeep Tanwar Nand Kishore Beniwal Sachin 39 Rajinder Nagar Raghav Chadha Rp Singh Rocky Tuseed 40 New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Sunil Yadav Romesh Sabharwal 41 Jangpura Praveen Kumar Imrit Singh Bakshi Talvinder Singh Marwah 42 Kasturba Nagar Madan Lal Ravinder Choudhry Abhishek Dutt Khem Chand 43 Malviya Nagar Somnath Bharti Shailendra Singh Moti Neetu Verma 44 R.K. Puram Parmila Tokas Anil Sharma Priyanka Singh 45 Mehrauli Naresh Yadav Kusum Khatri A A Mahender Chaudhary Kamal Singh 46 Chhatarpur Kartar Singh Tanwar Brahm Singh Tanwar Satish Lohia Suraj Bharti Harsh Nath Verma 47 Deoli Prakash Jarwal Arvind Kumar Arvinder Singh Ravi Kumar 48 Ambedkar Nagar Ajay Dutt Khushi Ram Chunar Yaduraj Choudhary Satish Rashmi 49 Sangam Vihar Dinesh Mohaniya Poonam Azad 50 Greater Kailash Saurabh Bharadwaj Shikha Roy Sukhbir Singh Pawar Rajbir Singh Lukman Khan 51 Kalkaji Atishi Dharamveer Singh Shivani Chopra 52 Tughlakabad Sahi Ram Pehlwan Vikram Bidhuri Shubam Sharma 53 Badarpur Ram Singh Netaji Ramveer Singh Bidhuri Pramod Kumar Yadav 54 Okhla Amanatullah Khan Brahm Singh Parvez Hashmi 55 Trilokpuri Rohit Kumar Mehraulia Kiran Vijay Kumar Raghu Raj Singh Kavita Rani Singh 56 Kondli Kuldeep Kumar (Monu) Rajkumar Dhillon Amreesh Goutham 57 Patparganj Manish Sisodia Ravinder Singh Negi Laxman Rawat Rakesh S Kumar 58 Laxmi Nagar Nitin Tyagi Abhay Kumar Verma Hari Dutt Sharma Jai Ram Lal 59 Vishwas Nagar Deepak Singla Om Prakash Sharma Gurcharan Singh Dileep Gautam Neesha 60 Krishna Nagar SK Bagga Anil Goyal Ashok Walia 61 Gandhi Nagar Naveen Choudhary (Deepu) Anil Kumar Bajpai Arvinder Singh Lovely Tikraj Singh Mukesh Kumar 62 Shahdara Ram Niwas Goyal Sanjay Goya Narender Nath Indu 63 Seemapuri Rajendra Pal Gautam - Veer Singh Dhingan 64 Rohtas Nagar Sarita Singh Jitender Kumar Vipin Sharma Trivender Mukesh Babu Saxena 65 Seelampur Abdul Rehman Kaushal Mishra Mateen Ahmed 66 Ghonda SD Sharma Ajay Mahawar Bhisham Sharma 67 Babarpur Gopal Rai Naresh Gaur Anveeksha Jain 68 Gokalpur Ch. Surendra Kumar Ranjeet Singh S P Singh Praveen Kumar 69 Mustafabad Haji Yunus Jagdish Pradhan Ali Mehndi 70 Karawal Nagar Durgesh Pathak Mohan Singh Bisht Arbind Singh

New election laws

Election Commission (EC) has made some important changes so that people of all ages can cast their vote easily. The new rules will allow absentee voters who are unable to reach polling stations due to different reasons of inabilities to participate in the elections. Disabled persons and senior citizens of over 80 years of age can avail the facility to exercise their franchise through postal ballot.

The Election Commission is adamant about providing pick and drive facility for all senior citizens so that they can easily cast their vote without any heckling. The Election Commission has decided to deploy 90,000 officials to conduct free and fair elections. Overall, 13,750 polling stations will be set up for Delhi polls.

Out of 70 seats in Delhi assembly, there are 58 general category seats, 12 seats are reserved for Schedule Caste (SC), and not a single seat is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Delhi. Apart from this, there are a total 1,46,92,136 voters in Delhi including 80.55 lakh males and 66.35 lakh females.

The tussle for govt formation

Which party will form the government in Delhi? It is a million-dollar question. At the outset, either AAP or BJP will form the next government, as far as the Congress party is concerned if it supports AAP, then this party can share power otherwise the oldest party of India will have to sit in the assembly as an opposition. The pertinent question for now is: will BJP dislodge the ruling AAP party, or AAP will once again retain the power? What would be the role of the grand old party? In the 2015 elections, the Congress party failed to open its account.

Momentum picking up

As usual, before the Delhi elections, the blame game has started, and political parties are busy in mudslinging and defaming each other. Every party wants to present itself as a prospect of development and empathy to attract the voters. At present, the country is passing through a bad phase to solve specific issues, which must be made the poll agenda. The controversial issues like National Register of Citizens (NRC), Citizenship Amendment Act, Ram Mandir, air pollution, women's safety, statehood demand for Delhi apart from this slowdown of the economy, rise of unemployment, soaring prices of essential commodities and clash in Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia are the vital subjects to be raised by the political parties to entice the voters.

BJP set to dislodge AAP

The BJP is not behind; the party hosted a big rally last month at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan, where prime minister Narendra Modi targeted the opposition parties over the violence of CAA in the country. Union Home Minister Amit Shah had said the saffron party has emerged as an alternative in the national capital given people's growing disenchantment with the Aam Aadmi Party government.

The saffron party will also raise the issue of Ram Temple in Ayodhya to entice the voters. The prime minister himself is an excellent orator who can lure voters merely by his enchanting speeches to unseat the ruling AAP party in Delhi. But BJP needs to punch above its weight to unseat the Kejriwal-led AAP government. However, an election is a game of uncertainty like cricket. Nothing is impossible.

AAP prepares to woo voters

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to unveil his government's development work such as the Mohalla clinics, model school works, free bus services for women, changing the colour of unauthorised colony and working to make them authorised and so on. Apart from this, free and subsidised 24-hour electricity has given lots of respites, especially to the downtrodden of society. Improvement in the water supply and opening of new hospitals are the works which can fetch votes for the AAP party. Full statehood is another hot demand for AAP to function independently.

AAP ropes in poll strategist

Kejriwal has left no stone unturned and roped in poll strategist Prashant Kishore to help the party to come to power for the second consecutive time.'Ache beete paanch saal, lage raho Kejriwal',AAP launched this slogan last month to woo the Delhi voters. Kishore had played a decisive role in the Bihar assembly election. His magical strategy may change the complexion of the election results in Delhi. It is undeniable that AAP is finding itself in the comfort zone at this moment.

Congress looks optimistic

The Congress may shake hands with AAP before or after the polls. But they failed to do so in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The grand old party is looking optimistic about getting a clear majority. The Delhi Congress has established a poll "war room" at the party office on DDU Marg. The objective behind this war room is to provide support to party candidates; volunteers are gearing up to go door to door to make contact with party workers and leaders in all the constituencies.

It seems that a fierce battle is on the cards of the contesting political parties in the upcoming Delhi polls. In 2015 elections, AAP bagged 67 seats while the BJP won just three seats and the Congress was not able to open its account. But in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP bagged all the seven seats in Delhi. In this assembly polls, the AAP is gearing up to go all out to win the confidence of the voters in Delhi. The field is wide open for the triangular contest with plenty of time left to finalize the poll strategy. But in Delhi, the real fight is between the prime minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

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List of the Assembly Constituencies in Delhi

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Last Updated on : January 22, 2020

The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi is Dr. Ranbir Singh, He heads the state election commission. He can be contacted at 011-23977130 (office) and 23969611 (fax).