The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has registered a decisive victory in the Delhi Assembly Election, returning to power after 27 years by defeating the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

The BJP won 48 seats in the 70-member legislative assembly, while the AAP bagged 22 seats. The third contender, Congress has been completely wiped out in the polls after failing to win even a single seat.

A party winning more than the halfway mark of 35 seats forms the government in the National Capital.

Prominent winners from BJP include Parvesh Sahib Singh from New Delhi, Vijender Gupta from Rohini, Kapil Misra from Karawal Nagar, Tarvinder Singh Marwah from Jungpura, Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, Shikha Roy from Greater Kailash, and Harish Khurana from Moti Nagar. Other BJP winners are Kailash Gahlot from Bijwasan, Karnail Singh from Shakur Basti, Neeraj Basoya from Kasturba Nagar, and Umang Bajaj from Rajinder Nagar.

Prominent successful AAP candidates include Atishi from Kalkaji, Som Dutt from Sadar Bazar, Gopal Rai in Babarpur, Virender Singh Kadian from Delhi Cantt, Kuldeep Kumar in the Kondli seat, Jarnail Singh in the Tilak Nagar seat, Imran Hussain in Ballimaran, and Sahi Ram from Tughlakabad. Other AAP winners are Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat from Sultanpur Majra constituency, Anil Jha in Kirari, Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad from Seelam Pur, and Punardeep Singh Sawhney in Chandni Chowk.

The notable faces who lost include senior AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Saurabh Bhardwaj; Durgesh Pathak, Avadh Ojha, and Jitender Singh Shunty; Congress’ Sandeep Dikshit; and BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri and Raaj Kumar Anand.

In by-elections, BJP’s Chandrabhanu Paswan has won from the Milkipur assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He defeated Samajwadi Party’s Ajit Prasad by a margin of over 61,700 votes. Chandirakumar, VC of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), has won the by-poll in the Erode (East) assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu.