Legislative Assembly of Delhi (Vidhan Sabha of Delhi) |
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Type | |
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Term limits
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Feb 2015 - Jan 2020 |
Leadership | |
Speaker of the Assembly
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Dy. Speaker
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Chief Minister
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Leader of the House
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Leader of the Opposition
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Secretary
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P.N. Mishra
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Structure | |
Seats | 70 |
Political groups
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AAP (67) |
Length of term
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5 years |
Elections | |
First-past-the-post | |
Last election
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7 February 2015 |
Meeting place | |
Old Secretariat , Delhi, India | |
Website | |
Legislative Assembly of Delhi |
AAP (67)
The Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted on 14th Feb 2015 after the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections were concluded earlier that month.
Elections for 70 assembly seats in Delhi were concluded on 07th Feb 2015 and results were announced on 10th Feb 2015. The Aam Aadmi Party got a sweeping majority by winning 67 out of 70 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party managed only 3 seats and all other parties, including the Indian National Congress could not manage to win any seats. AAP got 54.3% (4,879,127), BJP got 32.2% (2,891,510) and INC got 9.7% (867,027) of total votes polled. A total of 6 national parties, 10 state parties, 55 registered (unrecognised) parties and 1 independent candidate contested for the 70 assembly seats.
On 14th Feb 2015, Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi. Along with Kejriwal, six ministers were also sworn in.
Default sort, in ascending order of constituency