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MCD Election Result 2022 Highlights: AAP ends BJP's 15-year rule in civic body, bags 134 seats Delhi MCD Election Result 2022: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday (December 7, 2022) ended the Bharatiya Janata Party's 15-year rule at the Delhi municipal corporation with the final results putting the party's overall tally at 134. As per the State Election Commission figures, the BJP, which exit polls predicted would suffer a massive defeat, has won 104 seats. The Congress could only manage to get nine seats. Three Independent candidates, including Shakeela Begum from Seelampur in northeast Delhi, have also won.
The counting of votes began at 8 am, and initial trends put the BJP ahead of Kejriwal's party by a significant margin, but the pendulum swung in the AAP's favour as the counting progressed.
This was the first election after the MCD was reunified earlier this year.
Earlier in the 2017 civic polls in Delhi, the BJP had clinched 181 of the then 270 municipal wards while AAP had won only 48 and the Congress finished third with 30.
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