Janakpuri Assembly Election Results 2025: BJP’s Ashish Sood won the Janakpuri seat defeating AAP’s Parveen Kumar by over 18,000 votes margin. The BJP candidate got 68,986 of the total votes polled, while AAP’s Parveen Kumar could bag only 50,220 votes. The Assembly Elections 2025 in Delhi ended on February 5. The counting of votes began today, February 8. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress party are the important parties in Delhi. Janakpuri is one of the key constituencies in the 70-seat Delhi Assembly. Rajesh Rishi of AAP is the sitting MLA from the Janakpuri seat. He won the seat with a margin of 14,917 votes in 2020 elections. However, this time he has not been given a ticket from the party, leading to his departure from AAP.
Highlights:
After six rounds of counting, BJP’s Ashish Sood is leading with 30,814 votes and a margin of 13,086 votes against AAP’s Parveen Kumar. Congress party’s Harbani Kaur is at the third spot currently with 1,905 votes.
At 11:30 am, BJP’s Ashish Sood is still leading against AAP’s Parveen Kumar. The margin between them is increasing rapidly as the BJP candidate is currently ahead with 21,974 votes.
As per the ECI website, BJP’s Ashish Sood is leading with 12,282 votes and a margin of over 7,000 votes against AAP’s Parveen Kumar.
As per the latest trends BJP’s Ashish Sood is leading with 15,804 votes against AAP’s Praveen Kumar.
The latest trends as per the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s official website, BJP is leading on 28 seats while AAP is ahead on 9 seats.
As per initial trends, BJP is leading on 14, AAP is ahead on 13 and Congress has opened its account with one constituency seat.
The counting of votes for the Janakpuri constituency seat begins.
Counting of votes to begin shortly.
Key Candidates
The sitting MLA from the Janakpuri constituency seat, Rajesh Rishi, resigned from AAP along with seven others which included Bhavna Gaur (Palam), Madan Lal (Kasturba Nagar), Rohit Kumar Mehraulia (Trilokpuri), Bhupinder Singh Joon (Bijwasan), Naresh Yadav (Mehrauli), Pawan Kumar Sharma (Adarsh Nagar) and Girish Soni (Madipur).
AAP fielded Praveen Kumar this time from the constituency. He went head-to-head against BJP’s Ashish Sood and Harbani Kaur of the Congress party.
History of Janakpuri constituency
It is one of the 70 constituencies of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The constituency was established in 1993. It is a part of the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency which includes nine other assembly segments namely Madipur, Rajouri Garden, Hari Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Uttam Nagar, Vikaspuri, Dwarka, Matiala, and Najafgarh.
The seat has been a stronghold of the BJP since its inception in 1993 and Professor Jagdish Mukhi won this seat straight five times till 2013. In 2015, AAP’s Rajesh Rishi took the seat from BJP and won elections from the seat two consecutive times.
