In a first, BJP created history by winning all the seven Lok Sabha seats in national Capital for the third consecutive time against the imposing combination of Congress and ruling party AAP in Delhi.

Changing all but one of its Lok Sabha candidates seemed to have worked for the BJP, even as its vote share seems to have taken a slight hit  while the rebellion within the Congress over alliance with AAP dented the INDIA Bloc.

Riding high on the 'Modi factor' and a targeted campaign against the Aam Aadmi Party and over corruption allegations and Swati Maliwal controversy, the BJP emerged victorious on all seven seats in Delhi as it thwarted the challenge mounted by the INDIA Bloc.

The loss of AAP and Congress in Delhi also puts a question mark on the effectiveness of the alliance experiment.

BJP leader Manoj Tiwari defeated Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi by a margin of over one lakh votes.  BJP leader Praveen Khandelwal defeated veteran Congress leader JP Aggarwal by a margin of over 89,000 votes from Chandni Chowk seat. South Delhi BJP candidate Ramvir Singh Bidhuri also won the seat, defeating AAP candidate Sahi Ram Pahelwan by a margin of around 1.24 lakh votes.

BJP candidate Kamaljeet Sehrawat defeated AAP candidate and veteran politician Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi seat by a margin of 1.97 lakh votes. Bansuri Swaraj of BJP from New Delhi defeated AAP candidate Somnath Bharti by a margin of over 70,000 votes while Yogendra Chandoliya defeated Congress candidate Udit Raj from North West Delhi by a margin of over 2.90 lakh votes.

BJP's Harsh Malhotra also defeated AAP leader Kuldeep Kumar from East Delhi by a margin of over 88,000 votes. However, the victory margin of winners as compared to the 2019 polls reduced drastically in all seven parliamentary constituencies.

The BJP's campaign, focused on the issue of development and action against corruption, saw two rallies of PM Narendra Modi,  alongside rallies, meetings and roadshows by scores of union ministers, chief ministers and its popular leaders from across the country two weeks before polls.

The leaders at Delhi BJP credited the third clean sweep in a row by the party mainly to the 'Modi' factor and the party's sustained attack on the Kejriwal government over its alleged involvement in corruption cases. In 2019, the votes polled by the BJP were higher than the joint tally of AAP and Congress candidates put together.

 The BJP's vote share declined from 56.7 per cent in 2019 to around 54.32 per cent this time. However, it is higher than the party's 2014 vote share of 46.6 per cent.  AAP's vote share rose from 18.2 per cent in 2019 to around 24 per cent this time, while Congress' vote share of 22.6 per cent in 2019 declined to around 18 per cent this time. The AAP failed to better its 2014 vote share of 33.1 per cent. Congress had a vote share of 15.2 per cent in 2014.

Right from Prime Minister Modi to chief ministers of various states who campaigned for the BJP in Delhi, everyone trained their guns at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) calling it "kattar beimaan" (hardcore corrupt) and mocking its "unholy" alliance with the Congress.

 On the other hand, the apparent lack of on-ground synergy between AAP and Congress workers and no joint rallies of the two parties ensured that voters were not too keen on supporting the alliance candidates, according to political observers.

The AAP had hoped to sway the election by banking on the alleged unfair treatment meted out to Kejriwal. While he was in jail, the party's slogan was 'Jail ka javab vote se'. When he was granted interim bail to campaign, Kejriwal sought votes to "keep him out of jail". Neither of the two narratives worked. The AAP-Congress combine can only draw solace from the fact that the victory margins for the BJP were thinner this time. While AAP bettered its vote share from the 2019 polls, the Congress took a hit this time.

The AAP contested a total of 22 seats: 13 in Punjab, four in Delhi, two each in Gujarat (Bharuch and Bhavnagar) and Assam (Sonitpur and Dibrugarh) and one in Haryana (Kurukshetra). The party drew a blank in Gujarat, Delhi and Assam.

 The election results also set the tone for the Assembly elections next year in Delhi as the BJP, despite stamping its authority in Lok Sabha polls, has failed to dent the AAP's prospects in the national capital.  The AAP has registered landslide victories in Delhi in 2015 and 2020 winning 67 and 62 seats respectively out of 70 constituencies but has drawn a blank in Lok Sabha polls.

The results show that AAP, despite becoming a national party, still has a long way to go before it can pose a challenge to the BJP at the national level.  For Congress, the dip in the vote share as well as the fact that its two candidates are trailing by over 1 lakh votes in North East Delhi and North West Delhi seems to indicate that the last-minute announcement of "outsider" candidates, which allegedly prompted former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Lovely's departure to the BJP, were an important factor.