Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: How AAP, BJP, Congress Performed in 2017 Municipal Corporation Polls

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: The Delhi MCD Election 2022 has been largely touted as a three-way contest among a spirited AAP, a confident BJP and a hopeful Congress. Both AAP and the BJP have exuded confidence that they will emerge victorious in the polls while the Congress is seeking to regain lost turf.

Delhi MCD Election: How AAP, BJP, Congress Performed in 2017 Municipal Corporation Polls

Delhi MCD Election Result 2017 

Total Wards - 270 

BJP - 181 

AAP - 48 

Congress - 27 

Polling could not be held on two seats due to the death of candidates. 

Total Voting percentage in Delhi MCD Election 2017 - 53%

There were 272 wards in Delhi and three corporations -- NDMC, SDMC and EDMC -- in Delhi from 2012-2022, before being reunified into an MCD that had formally come into existence on May 22. The erstwhile MCD, established in 1958, was trifurcated in 2012 during Sheila Dikshit's tenure as the chief minister.

Delhi MCD Election 2022 Voting Percentage 

Delhi recorded a voter turnout of 50.48 per cent in the keenly-watched polls held on December 4. There are 250 wards in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and 1,349 candidates are in the fray in this election.

Delhi MCD Election 2022 Vote Counting Centres 

42 centres have been set up. The centres are located in areas:

Shastri Park

Yamuna Vihar

Mayur Vihar

Nand Nagari

Dwarka

Okhla

Mangolpuri

Pitampura

Alipur

Model Town

Delhi MCD Election 2022 Highest and lowest polling percentage/seat-wise data 

Bakhtawarpur - 65.72%

Civil Lines - 44.86 per cent

Chandni Chowk - 44.48 per cent

Karol Bagh - 44.72 per cent

Najafgarh - 51.97 per cent

Rajinder Nagar - 44.26 per cent

Malaviya Nagar - 44.89 per cent

Greater Kailash - 38.99 per cent

Laxmi Nagar - 49.02 per cent

Andrews Ganj - 33.74%

The total number of voters in Delhi is 1,45,05,358 -- 78,93,418 males, 66,10,879 females and 1,061 transgender people. This is the first civic election after the fresh delimitation exercise, and the poll was held days after the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections, and a day ahead of its second phase.

Authorities had set up 13,638 polling stations across Delhi for the exercise. This was also the first civic polls held in the national capital after the February 2020 riots in Delhi, and according to data shared by officials, 3,360 booths, spanning 493 locations, were identified in critical or sensitive categories.

Sixty-eight model polling stations and as many pink polling stations were established for quality experience of voters. 

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