Delhi Election Results: AAP's Mohinder Goyal wins Rithala constituency, All you need to know

AAP has won the Rithala Vidhan Sabha constituency. Party's member Mohinder Goyal defeated BJPs Manish Chaudhury.

He won the seat by a margin of 13873 votes.

AAP's Mohinder Goyal won the seat in the 2015 mid-term elections, before that, BJP's Kulwant Rana held the seat from 2013 to 2008. The total electors in the constituency are 2,48,480.

This segment is Muslim-dominated, constituting  40 per cent of the population followed by Jats, a traditional BJP vote bank.

In the Delhi Assembly Elections 2020, AAP contested from all 70 seats for the assembly polls while BJP contested on 67 seats, with its ally Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Lok Janashakti Party (LJP) contested on the remaining three seats.

On the other hand, Congress fought on 66 seats and its ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) fought on the remaining 4 seats.

Polling was held at 13,750 polling stations. According to the poll body chief, total electors in the final electoral roll of the NCT of Delhi as on January 6, 2020, were 1,46,92,136.

The polls for all the seats were held on February 8, 2020, and the results were declared on February 11, 2020.

It is to be noted that in 2015, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had a landmark victory after it secured 67 of the total 70 seats in the state legislature. The party is now eyeing a second consecutive term banking on freebies that it provided to Delhiites including free water, free electricity up to 200 units, free ride for women in DTC and cluster buses, among other measures.