Delhi Exit Polls 2025: Most exit polls give edge to BJP. AAP headed for Opposition?
Delhi Exit Polls 2025: Is Arvind Kejriwal's AAP headed for the Opposition benches in the Delhi assembly? While most exit polls predict a comeback for the BJP, the final and official results will be declared by the Election Commission on February 8, Saturday.
Most of the exit polls gave a clear edge to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Delhi Elections 2025. Will the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) be ousted from power in the national capital? Is Arvind Kejriwal's AAP headed for the Opposition benches in Delhi? The final and official results will be declared by the Election Commission on February 8, Saturday.
What Delhi exit polls predicted
Most pollsters — Peoples Pulse, JVC Poll, P-MarQ, People's Insight and Chanakya Strategies — predicted a comfortable win for the BJP in Delhi.
However, one exit poll, Matrize, predicted a hung assembly — not giving any party an absolute majority.
Only two exit polls, Mind Blink and Wee Preside, predicted a landslide victory for Arvind Kejriwal's AAP, India Today reported.
A political party needs to win 36 of the 70 Delhi assembly seats to form government in the national capital.
Delhi Exit Poll Results | IN NUMBERS
| Exit polls | AAP (seats) | BJP (seats) | Congress (seats) |
| Matrize | 32-37 | 35-40 | - |
| JVC Poll | 22-31 | 39-45 | 0-2 |
| Peoples Pulse | 10-19 | 51-60 | 0 |
| P-MarQ | 21-31 | 39-49 | 0-1 |
| People's insight | 25-29 | 40-44 | 1 |
| Chanakya Strategies | 25-28 | 39-44 | 2-3 |
| Wee Preside | 46-52 | 18-23 | 0-1 |
| Mind Blink | 44-49 | 21-25 | 0-1 |
| Poll Diary | 18-25 | 42-50 | 0-2 |
BJP's 27-year-drought
The BJP last won the Delhi Assembly Elections in 1993. Five years later, in 1998, the Congress crawled back to power with Sheila Dixit as Delhi's chief minister. Sheila Dixit then ruled the national capital for 15 years, becoming the longest-serving woman chief minister of Delhi.
Delhi Exit Polls 2025: What happened in past elections?
Here's a detailed tally of winners and vote share won by all the parties since the elections in 1951:
| YEAR | AAP (seats and vote share) | Congress (seats and vote share) | BJP (seats and vote share) | Total Assembly seats |
| 1951 | - | 39/52% | 5/29% (Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh) | 48 |
| 1972 | - | 44/52.5% | 5/38.4% (Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh) | 56 |
| 1977 (After emergency) | - | 10/39% | - | 56 |
| 1983 | - | 34/47.5% | 19/43.1% | 56 |
| 1993 | - | 14/34.48% | 49/42.8% | 70 |
| 1998 | - | 52/47.76% | 15/35.8% | 70 |
| 2003 | - | 47/ 48.13% | 20/ 35.22% | 70 |
| 2008 | - | 43/40.31% | 23/ 36.84% | 70 |
| 2013 | 28/29.64% | 8/24.67% | 31/34.12% | 70 |
| 2015 | 67/ 54.59% | 0/ 9.7% | 3/ 32.78% | 70 |
| 2020 | 62/53.57% | 0/4.63% | 8/40.57% | 70 |
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