COUNTDOWN TO TICKET DISTRIBUTION (2015) POLLS Repeated candidates A look at the parties and candidates for the New candidates 43 Delhi Assembly polls to be held on Feb 7 36 36 34 4434

VOTE SHARE & SEATS (No. of seats won in brackets) 27

% 23.35% 36.34 12.89% 33.07% Others** BJP+(23) Others** BJP+(32*) (4) (2) 2008 2013

40.31% 29.49% 24.55% Cong (43) AAP (28) Cong (8) BJP Cong AAP

A THREE-CORNERED CONTEST IN FEB 2015

Bharatiya Aam Janata Aadmi Party Congress Party

AGE PROFILE: 36 candidates are aged AGE PROFILE: 29 candidates are Caste factor: The party below 50 aged less than 50 is fielding five Muslims Caste factor: Ticket distribution has Caste factor: The party is and 12 Dalit candidates tried to overcome the party’s image of fielding six Muslims and 13 Dalit Women candidates: being a Brahmin, Punjabi and Baniya candidates Six candidates are women dominated party in Delhi. The party Women candidates: Five Outsiders: Pramila has fielded 13 Dalits. candidates are women Tokas, a former BSP Women candidates: Seven Outsiders: Sitting Independent councillor, has been candidates are women MLAShoaib Iqbal, who joined the fielded from R K Puram, Outsiders: The party is fielding Congress, has been fielded from and Imraan, also a several outsiders, including chief Matia Mahal; sitting Independent former BSP candidate, ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and MLARambir Shokeen’s wife, Reeta will contest the two-time Congress MP Shokeen, is contesting from Mundka Ballimaran seat SOME KEY CONTESTS THIS TIME SADAR BAZAR Arvind Kejriwal (AAP) vs Nupur Sharma Ajay Maken (Congress) vs Som Dutt (BJP) vs Kiran Walia (Congress) (AAP) vs Praveen Jain (BJP) Kejriwal defeated three-time Delhi CM Sheila Maken is a former Union minister and the Dikshit in the 2013 polls from this seat. Sharma Congress’ face for the Assembly polls. Dutt is the is a London School of Economics alumnus and a sitting AAP MLA, while Jain is an influential BJP youth leader. Walia was a minister in the civic body leader Dikshit-led government KRISHNA NAGAR PATPARGANJ Kiran Bedi (BJP) vs S K Bagga (AAP) vs Manish Sisodia (AAP) vs Vinod Kumar Bansi Lal Binny (BJP) vs Anil Kumar (Congress) (Congress) Sisodia is the sitting MLA and Kejriwal’s confi- Bedi is the chief ministerial candidate of dant. Binny was the AAP giant killer in 2013 the , contesting Assembly polls, defeating Congress bigwig A K from a seat that Harsh Vardhan, the Union sci- Walia, but was later expelled from the party and ence and technology minister, won for joined BJP. Kumar is a Congress youth leader a successive five times since 1993

*Includes ally Shiromani Akali Dal’s one seat; **Others include smaller parties and Independents Source: Election Commission & parties