In Delhi Assembly elections 2025, five women candidates including outgoing Chief Minister Atishi secured victory, which marked a decline from the eight who won in 2020.
After retaining the Kalkaji seat, Atishi has remained the only woman candidate in AAP who won this election by defeating BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri by a margin of 3,521 votes, according to Ethe lection Commission.
The BJP, however, saw four of its women candidates emerge victorious—Rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh, Poonam Sharma from Wazirpur, Neelam Pahelwan from Najafgarh, and Shikha Roy from Greater Kailash.
Out of 699 candidates contesting this time, 96 were women, compared to 76 women among 672 candidates in the 2020 elections. Back then, eight women had won seats.
Among the major political parties, both the BJP and AAP fielded nine female candidates each, while Congress had seven. All three parties increased their number of women candidates compared to 2020.
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