Ruling AAP will win 59 seats: IANS-CVoter Delhi poll tracker

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Ruling AAP will win 59 seats: IANS-CVoter Delhi poll tracker

Meanwhile, chances for the Congress to score a duck cannot be wished away

Monday January 6, 2020 7:48 PM, IANS

New Delhi: The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is all set sweep back to power in the Delhi Assembly elections, according to IANS-CVoter Delhi poll tracker.

If elections are held today, AAP is all set to win 59 seats, while the BJP, which is a distant second, is tipped to get just eight seats. The Congress is predicted to get three seats in the Delhi assembly elections.

This is the first leg of the survey.

However, if one focuses on seat projection, the AAP may get as much as 64 seats. The projection range for the BJP, which is going all out to come back to power in Delhi after nearly two decades, is between three and 13 seats.

Meanwhile, chances for the Congress to score a duck cannot be wished away. The seat projection for the grand old party in the national capital is between zero and six seats.

AAP is likely perform best in the outer Delhi area where it is likely to score a perfect 26. It is projected to get 17 seats in central Delhi area and 16 seats in the trans Delhi zone.

The 70-member Delhi Assembly will go to the polls on February 8. The results will be declared on February 11.

Delhi Assembly elections are considered prestigious, given that it is the national capital and the centre of the Union government. AAP had defeated BJP in 2015 and the saffron party has been itching to regain power. It matters all the more to the BJP, which has in recent times been losing out in Assembly elections.

In the outgoing Assembly, the AAP had won 67 seats which came down to 62 after five of its legislators were disqualified. It lost one more seat in a bypoll after the seat was vacated by an AAP legislator who won in the Punjab Assembly polls.

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